A WILL IN DISPUTE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 305, 9 December 1931, Page 8

A WILL IN DISPUTE

EXECUTORS SEEK PROBATE. WAIRARAPA FARMER’S ESTATE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Dec. 8. An action asking for probate in solemn form of the will and two codicils of Joshua Viles, a wealthy Wairarapa farmer, who died in February, was com menced in the Supreme Court before Mr Justice Ostler. The plaintiffs are Samuel Cundy, a stock buyer, and Quen tin Donald, farmer, both of Featherston, as executors of the will, and the defendants are the two sons of the testator, Albert Victor Viles, a farmer, of Greytown, and Stanley Steadman Viles, clerk, Napier. The late Mr Viles, who lived at Featherston, left an estate valued roughly at £25,000. Probate is opposed by the two sons on the ground that when tho second codicil was purported to have been executed, the testator lacked testamentary capacity. The prospects arc that the hearing possibly will last several days.