ADMINISTERING AN ESTATE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 53, 30 August 1913, Page 15

ADMINISTERING AN ESTATE

Atj the Supreme Court yesterday, his Honour Mr. Justice Chapman was engaged in the hearing of an originating summons in the estate of Henry EdBall, late Swanaon, gumdigger. The Public Trustee, administrator of, the estate, was the plaintiff, and James Edsall, of Bryn Mawf, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and George Edsall, of Jersey, Channel Islands, the defendants. Mr. J. W. Macdohald (solicitor for the Public Trust Office) appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. A. H. Barnott for the defendants. The deceased, Henry Edsall, died on 12th March, 1909, intestate, aged 62 years, and unmarried, and the Public Trustee became administrator of his estate. The parents of John Edsall and Ann Foulton were married in England on 19th July, 1845. They had four children, George Edsall, Henry Edsall, James Edsall, and Mary Ann Edsall. The father died on 2nd October, 1854. Deceased widow was stated to 'have left Jersey soon after her husband's death, taking her infant daughter with her. Later,, she was stated to have gone with a regiment leaving Jersey for Aldershot, and from there to New Zealand at the time of the Maori war. The Public Trustee reserved the shares of the mother and daughter in distributing the estates, and the originating summons was issuer! in respect to these two shares. The. evidence, .taken in America

and the Channel Islands was put in. His Honour made an order declaring the mother and daughter to have predeceased deceased, the daughter without issue.