DISPUTE OVER WILL

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 160, 1 April 1922, Page 9

DISPUTE OVER WILL

motion for probate opposed.

BY TBIJiGBAPa— PBES6 ASSOC! ATIONNapier, March 30. A motion for probate in the estate of the late Elizabeth Ellen Twigger was opposed in the Supremo Court today, before Mr. Justice Reed, by Thomas Twigger, son of deceased, on the grounds that his mother was not in a fit mental state to make a will, and’ that undue influence was exercised bv one of the beneficiaries, J. Clark Thomson, to whom the bulk ot the estate, valued at £556, was willed. Thomson denied having influenced tho deceased, and evidence was called to show that he strongly objected when Mrs. Twigger proposed to. leave her monev to him. It was also stated in evidence that deceased had spoken of tho wayward habits of her son, and had said that she would not leave him anything. Medical evidence supported the contention that Mrs. Twigger’s mind was sound when the will was executed. The caveator called evidence in an endeavour to prove that tho illness from which his mother suffered, lethargic encephalitis, had an effect on the mind. Witnesses also stated that Mrs Twigger had spoken well of her son, and had said she would leave her money to him. Judgment was reserved.