WIDOW AND UNMARRIED

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2380, 5 December 1929, Page 5

WIDOW AND UNMARRIED

CONSORTS SHARE ESTATE

SAILOR-FARMER’S CAREER

one: gets insurance, the

OTHER; HIS FARM

(Per Press Association). Hamilton, Dec. 4

Rival claims of a. wife and unmarried consort tq the estate of Richard Stevens, docased. a farmer of To Kuiti was decided by Sir Alexander Herdman in the Supreme Court today. He granted la. declaration that Stevens’ farm, which, be. held by the Public Trustee in trust for Amelia Alice Harwell,, with whom deceased had lived as her husband since 1909, she having two daughters by him. While in the Navy, deceased married a girl of Malta, in ].892 and she and a son still survive. Deceased had not communieateed with her since 1909. The money with which the farm was bought was taken from Miss Harwell’s savings, the bank account representing partly her own savings and partly profit on the home whio they had bought,, and then sold, at W'inganuit 'The widow 1 , in Malta., had already received Stevens’ £2O life insurance hut the judge decided Miss Harwell was entitled to the farm property. Stevens died intestate.