A DISINHERITED WIFE APPLICATION IN SUPREME COURT.
A wife who for some unexplained reason was left unprovided for in her husband's will applied at the Supreme Court this morning for relief. The case was heard in Chambers by His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout). The plaintiff was Alice Mary Barrow (Mr. R. B. Williams) and the defendant the Public Trustee (for whom Mr. J. W. Mac Donald appeared). It was explained that the plaintiff's husband, Charles Louis Barrow, late of Otaki, whose estate was not a large one, had left all his property to his ten-year-old daughter. His widow was in bad health, and was being supported by her brother. Mrs. Barrow stated in evidence that she was unable to understand why her husband had left her nothing. There had been no quarrel ; there were no religious differences ; he had died in her arms. ■ His Honour commented upon the situation as an extraordinary one. In the meantime he would make an order for the to receive 22s 6d per week out of the estate, as from 24th February, when tlfe will was proved. 'The costs are to"' be paid by the Public Trustee out of the estate.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 78, 2 April 1914, Page 8
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199A DISINHERITED WIFE APPLICATION IN SUPREME COURT. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 78, 2 April 1914, Page 8
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