SECOND EDITION. A Singular Will Cane.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 131, 1 December 1888, Page 3

SECOND EDITION. A S ingular Will Cane.

(By Tbliobjlpu J [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 CHKISTCHORCH, 30th November. A disputed will oaso prcfentinjj some carious fcaidrcs ramo before Mr. JiMicc Ward in Chambers this morning. 'I ho factn aro tliat ono Tboman Watiswortl), now <leoeaspil, ft farmer of Orari, wrote hii « ill with his own hand, bnt omitted to eiffn it in thp usnal manner. His name, however, was written in tho attention clauw, and the "iifnotures of two wilneH«oH wern atliicbcl Air. Deacon applied for probato to William Attwood, one of tho executorn, submitting t tat the writing of tho name in tho attustaton olame was a (tood pignature. Mr Joynt appeared to apply for letters of administrat on to the son of tho deoeiseO, contending uuat it was shown that both witneßgeH wore aware of the namo haviug been written in tio attestation clause by tho testator, and tint tho will was void. After considarable itrffiiment an order wan made that the esecnt>r should propound tlie will by action, so fiat tho matter might bo settled cvt the open s-ittinpß of the Court.