DISPUTE OVER WILL

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1936, Page 13

DISPUTE OVER WILL

SPINSTER'S ESTATE

EVIDENCE OF DOCTOR

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Further evidence for the defence was given in the Supreme Court today during the hearing of the application to have the probate of the will allegedly made by the late Miss Elizabeth Smith revoked and the will declared null and void. j The plaintiffs were Olive Judge and | Ivy Cookson, both of Christchurch, and the defendant was the Guardian Trust and Executors' Company of New Zealand, Ltd. Dr. Baxter said that he met Miss Smith in the office of the South British Insurance Company in November, 1933. He had been informed previously that Miss Smith had changed several of her investments and that she had been approached by share salesmen and appeared to'be rather carried away by them. He had a conversation with Miss Smith, and after the interview said he, was not satisfied with her mental condition. For the purposes of further observation he drove her home. Partly as a result of his conversation with Miss Smith and partly as a result of what he had been told she was doing with her estate he formed the opinion that she was an easy prey for.enterprising share salesmen, and he wrote a report to that effect. Mr. Barrowclough: What did she say in regard to these salesmen? Witness: She regretted yielding to their persuasions, but I thought it probable that she would not be able to resist them if they came back again.