APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL.
Wellington woman succeeds. DISPUTE OVER DEATH DUTIES. (rv usonilDui i/resa Ajsst/oiaLio/j—o o it*: a 6<;rviL<s.J LONDON, Jan. 22. The Judicial Committee of tuie Privy Council has allowed, with costs, the appeal by iVirs Olive Pinch, of t Wellington, a.s toe executrix of Her husband, Uhad.es Edmund: Finch, versus the Commissioner of Stamp Duties- respecting tne. Commissioner's claim on £1982 death duties. The committee upheld the original judgment of the Chief Justice or the New Zealand Supreme Court that £1982 paid for alterations to Finch’s house was not a gift to his wife,, but was expended to improve the home without intention of evading the death duties.
[A message received yesterday afternoon and published in the late edition of the “Star”, stated that the committee did not uphold the original judgment of the New Zealand Chief Justice, but a correction was subsequently received stating that the judgment referred to had been upheld.]
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 January 1929, Page 5
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