CONSTRUCTION OF A WILL.
[BY TELEGRAM. — ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. Mr. Justice Edwards was to-day asked, at the instance of the Public Trustee, to apportion the estate of the late Thomas Banks, farmer, of Brookside, Canterbury, valued at about £1400. Banks was originally married in England, and had children by that marriage. There was a separation, Banks coining to the colony and his former partner remaining in England, where she remarried. Banks also remarried with a woman, who, by. a singular coincidence was of the same name as his first wife, in that her Christian name was Eleanor, and who had been twice previously married, her second husband being of the name Batiks. These marriages and intermarriages have produced a crop of claimants, and the' Court is asked on the construction of the will to decide whether the residue is tc be divided into two equal parts, the grandchildren taking one share and the children of the fiist Eleanor Banks the other. His Honor reserved judgment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11630, 18 April 1901, Page 6
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