ESTATE OF £200,000

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3996, 10 April 1933, Page 6

ESTATE OF £200,000

PROPERTY OF \Y. 15. RHODES APPEAL CO CRT ACTION l’ l Co# .AMovitiLioia Wellingtonj March S Judges of tne tir-t ajiß second divisions of the Court of Appeal sac together yesterday to hear an appeal involving th<j estate of tile late lion. illiani Rhodes. Thu Court was asked to determine whether the typing-up of the lion. Mr Rhodes’s estate, under a will made in 1878, vested, property in estate tail i IL tin: late Captain W. B. R Rhodes Moorhouse, V.C., who was killed in action in April 1910, and consequently which at his death became vested, in ins only son, W. H. Rhodes Moorhouse an infant, born in March 191 i. .Tile property concerned is known sis Highland Park and Heaton Park estates, the. greater part of the former and the whole of j the latter having been sold. Authority of effect these sales was given by the Rhodes Trust Act, 1901. I’lie Cdlurt of Appeal at the previous hearing last year decided that the interests of Captain Rhodes Moorliouse failed because lie died before liis mother. Tn the present hearing it it argued that Captain Rhodes Mv>orhouse’s interest was vested in him. and that what is Known as Shelley*case lias no application.