INTERPRETATION OF WILL

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27040, 15 May 1953, Page 6

INTERPRETATION OF WILL

COURT ASKED FOR RULING

Submissions by counsel were heard in the Supreme Court yesterday when Mr Justice Northcroft was asked to determine questions on the interpretation of the will of George Frederick Robinson, a retired butcher, who died on July 4, 1951. The hearing will be continued today. Mr E. C. Champion is appearing the Public Trustee, executor of the estate; Mr E. M. Hay for Keith Henry Alfred Robinson, a butcher; and Mr R. J. Loughnan for Hubert Charles Robinson, a hotel manager, and Gladys Morgan, a married woman.

Mr Champion said the questions for the Court were what was to happen to the proceeds from the sales of two areas of lands. The testator, by his will of January 20, 1947, left 81 acres of land at Burwood to Hubert Robinson, Garrett Franklin Robinson and Ronald Frederick Marshall Robinson. The latter two were not represented by counsel and said they did not want to take any part in the proceedings. The testator left an adjoining 4J acres to Gladys Morgan. Before the testator died one acre of the land was taken by proclamation for reading purposes and the compensation was not fixed at tiie time of his death though it had since been fixed at £5OO and that sum was in the hands of the Public Trustee. In December, 1950, the testator sold the rest of the land, getting some of the price in cash and leaving £l5OO cm mortgage over both areas. The questions were: what should happen to the compensation money and did the clauses in the will cover the £1500? Were the gifts sufficiently wide to include these two sums? If so, how was the money to be apportioned between the claimants?

DECREE NISI GRANTED

Mona Gloria Dowling (Mr A. K. Archer) petitioned in the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr Justice Northcroft, for divorce from Noel Alan Dowling on the ground of separation. A decree nisi was granted.