A MISER'S GIFT
BIG BEQUEST DISPUTED.
(Received January 17, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 16th January. The will of Alexander Brown, a housfc factor at Kilmarnock, who left £100,000 to an organisation styled the " Noble Resolve Gospel and Temperance Mission Auxiliary for the Promotion of Temperance and the Prevention of Gambling; Strikes, 'Wars, and Social Evils," was contested by the next-of-kin on the ground that the organisation had failed to constitute a trust.
It is stated that the testator lived most frugally. He paid his housekeeper 14s a week, and reluctantly granted her an additional sixpence. His annual in*come was then between £4000 and £5000. The parties have effected a, settlement.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 13, 17 January 1922, Page 8
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109A MISER'S GIFT Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 13, 17 January 1922, Page 8
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