A WILL CASE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10749, 21 November 1928, Page 5

A WILL CASE.

HEIR INHERITS £150.000 CASH UNDER FATHER'S WILL. SUES EXECUTORS FOR £ISOO. JUDGMENT RESERVED. (Press Association.) r; -GfEßKW^Rf®:::jSiw“:2[r:::.r. Herbert William Acton Adams, of Tipapa, North Canterbury, who inherited £150.000 cash under the will of his late father, sued the executors of the estate in the Supreme Court to-day for £ISOO. In 1921 plaintiff’s father, William Acton Adams, who resided in England, sent instructions for plaintiff, his wife, daughter and son~ to visit him. C. C. M. Ollivier, attorney in New Zealand for William Acton Adams, provided for the plaintiff a sum of £2500 out of moneys belonging to William Acton Adams as a reasonable sum to defray the expenses of the voyage. Plaintiff and his family were affectionately received by William Acton Adams, who, however, instructed his accountants in New Zealand to allow plaintiff only £IOOO on account of expenses. The trustees debited plaintiff with the sum of £2500, but credited him with £IOOO. The expenses exceeded £2500, and plaintiff had to appoint a manager on Tipapa property owned by William Acton Adams. < The sum of £ISOO therefore was claimed. The defence was that the siun of £2-300 was loaned or provided by Olliver, who had no authority to make the gift to plaintiff. At the time plaintiff knew that sum was not a gift by Ollivier on behalf of William Aeon Adams, and knew that lie was liable to repay the sum to William Acton Adams and knew that Acton Adams had instructed his accountants to credit plaintiff with the sum of £IOOO, plaintiff was discharged from his liability to repay that sum, hut his liability to repay the sum of £ISOO remained. Judgment was reserved.