FATHER'S EXECUTORS SUED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 November 1928, Page 7

FATHER'S EXECUTORS SUED.

A CURIOUS LEGAL POINT CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Hubert 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 Supremo 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. O.C. M. Olliver, attorney in England for William Acton Adams, provided for plaintiff the sum of £2500 out of the moneys belonging to William Acton Adams as a reasonable sum to defray expenses on the voyage. Plaintiff and his family were affectionately received by William Acton Adams wdio However, instructed his accountants in New Zealand to allow only £IOOO on account of expenses. The trustees debited plaintiff with the sura of £2500 but credited him with £IOOO. The expenses exceeded £2500 and plaintiff had to appoint a manager on the Tipapa property which was then owned by William Acton Adams. The sum ol £ISOO therefore was claimed. The defence was .that the sum ol £2500 was loaned or provided by Ollivier who had no authority to make the gift to plaintiff at the time. Plaint-ill knew that the sum was not a gift by Ollivior on behalf of William Acton Adams and knew that he was liable to repay the sum to William Acton Adams. As William Acton Adams had instructed his accountants to credit plaintiff with the sum of £IOOO plaintiff was discharged from his liability to repay that sum, but his liability to repay the sum of £ISOO remained. Judgment was reserved.