LEGACY TO DAUGHTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 12

LEGACY TO DAUGHTER.

TWENTY POUNDS UNDER WILL FURTHER, PROVISION SOUGHT. THE COURT MAKES NO ORDER. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. A daughter's application for further provision under her father's will was heard in the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice Adams. It was made under tho Family Protection Act by Florence Susan Madge Booker, wife of Allan Booker, of Loburn, labourer. Her father, Robert Bailey, who had a farjn at Lobnrn, died on January 19, 1925, leaving an estate valued at £1039. Ho left £250 each to his son, Edgar A. Bailey-, and his daughter, Alice Agnes Pulley; £2OO to his sou Samuel L. F. Bailey, and £2O each to his other five daughters, including the applicant, the residue to go to E. A. Bailey and S. L. F. Bailey in equal shares.

Mrs. Booker set out that she had lived at homo until tho date of her marriage, milked all the cows and often assisted at haymaking, fencing and potato picking. Her mother died when Mrs. Booker was 19 years of age and Mrs. Booker kept houso for her father with the help of tho other daughters. She received no j payments for her services. After her marriage her father stayed with her at various times, but did not pay for his board. H6r husband was a returned soldier and had suffered an accident that incapacitated him for more than a year. Ho was badly wounded on Gallipoli. Neither she nor her husband had any property, except a little furniture and they had several children. His Honor said the applicant was in a position in which even small assistance would bo a relief. On the other hand tho estate carried legacies amounting to £BOO and tho residue probably would be negligible. Much as His Honor sympathised with the applicant he could not' say that tho. testator had failed in his duty. No order would bo made.