DAMAGES CLAIM
Decision Reserved After hearing final submissions by counsel Mr Justice Macarthur in the Supreme Court yesterday reserved hie decision in a claim for damages brought by an elderly couple against Walter Charles Skelton, an estate agent, and executor of the will of William Ebenezer Round, who died in September, 1959, aged 81. The plaintiffs were William Edwin Elms, aged 73, a retired railway worker, and Amy Frances Elms, aged 67, both represented by Mr J. N. Matson. Skelton was represented by Mr R. W. Edgley. The case had been adjourned from October 16. The plaintiffs alleged that they had cared for the testator in his home for seven years, and he had promised them in a written document the free use of his home after his death. The couple, howafter, had been denied the right to the use ot the home after the testator died. Skelton, as well as executor, was named as beneficiary under the testator’s will.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29685, 1 December 1961, Page 16
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