WEALTHY RUNHOLDER.

Grey River Argus, 21 November 1928, Page 5

WEALTHY RUNHOLDER.

CLAIMS £1,500 From Executors of Father’s Estate. (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, November 20. Herbert "William Acton Adams, of Tipapa. North Canterbury, who inherited £150.000 in cash, under the will of his late father, sued the executors of the estate in the Supreme Court today for £l5OO. In 1921, plaintiff’s father, William Acton Adams, who resided in England, sent instructions for plaintiff, his. wife, daughter and son to visit him. Mr C. C. M. Ollivier. attorney in NewZealand for William Acton Adams, provided for plaintiff the suaa of £2500 out of moneys belonging to Wm. Apt on Adams, as a reasonable sum to defray the expenses of the voyage. Plaintiff and hi family were affectionately received by William Acton Adams, who instructed his accountants in New Zealand to allow "plaintiff only £lOOO on account of expenses. The trustee debited plaintiff with the sum of £2500, but credited him with £lOOO. His expenses exceeded £2500, and plaintiff had to appoint a manager on the Tipapa property, owned by Wm. Acton Adams. The sum of £l5OO, therefore, was claimed. The defence was that the sum of £2500 was loaned or provided by Ollivier. who had no authority to make a gift to plaintiff at the time., and that plaintiff knew that the sum was not a gift by Ollivier. on behalf of Wm. Acton Adams, and knew that he was liable to repay the sum of Wm. Acton Adams. As Mm. Acton Adams had instructed his accountants to credit plaintiff with the sum of £lOOO, plaintiff was discharged from his liability to repay that sum, but his liability to repay the sum of £l5OO remained. ‘ Judgment was reserved.