A NAPIER WILL APPEAL.
PROBATE GRANTED. [BY TELEGRAPH SPECIAL.] (Own Correspondent). Wellington, April 16. The last will and testament of John Davidson, carpenter, of Na"rier, a home made document, was responsible for an appeal to the Supreme Court when the Chief Jussice sat in Napier on 4th March. The estator bequeathed his property to his wife, whom he appointed sole executrix, but a complication arose from the fact that the witnesses, his two sons, signed their names vvhere she mother should have signed, and three executors were apparently set up instead of one. John Davidson, jnr., swore they signed their, names is witnesses. In giving judgment to-day his Honour said it was a most extraordinary mode of signing, but he saw no reason to assume he (Davidson) was riot selling the truth. The question was, if he is stating the truth was this sufficient attestation 1 The statute did not require the signatures to be in any particular place, and that being co he must assume the signatures sufficient. He therefore granted probate.
Air. V. A. Sproule appeared in support of the application for probate.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 103, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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185A NAPIER WILL APPEAL. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 103, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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