FARMER’S ESTATE

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 December 1929, Page 5

FARMER’S ESTATE

TWO WOMEN CLAIMANTS. (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, December 4. Rival claims of his wife and of his unmarried consort to the estate of Richard Stevens, a deceased farmer, of Te Kuiti, were decided by Mr Justice Herdman at the Supreme Court to-day. His Honor granted a declaration to the effect that Stevens’s farm is held by the Public Trustee in trust for Amelia Alice Harwell, with whom deceased lived as husband since 1909,

having two daughters by her. Stevens, while he was in the Navy married a'Malta girl in 1892. She and her son still survive. He had not communicated with her since 1909. The money with which the farm was bought was taken from Amelia Harwell’s Savings Bank account, representing partly her own money, and partly the profit on a home which they bought and sold at Wanganui. . The widow at Malta has already received Stevens’s £2OO life insurance, but the Judge decided that Amelia

Harwell is entitled to the farm property. Stevens died intestate.