DAUGHTER'S ANNUITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 12

DAUGHTER'S ANNUITY.

INCREASE TO £7 WEEKLY.

SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT

An oral judgment increasing the allowance of Annie Pollock (Mr. Sullivan) under the will of her late father, William James Courtney, of Ponsonby, by £6O a year, was delivered by Mr. Justice Smith in tho Supreme Court yesterday. His Honor said that the estate, both as to capital and as to income, was ample to discharge all the claims upon it, and the case was one in which there wore no competing moral claims. Ho concluded that the benefits which the plaintiff derived from her father until his death might be valued at £7 a week; and it was reasonable to suppose that he yius discharged to the full his moral obligatioiis to his daughter. Seven pounds a week meant £364 a year, and as she was mow receiving £304 from thd estate, ho would make an order increasing her income from it bv £6O as from November 29, 1928, the date of tho originating sumjnons. These payments and the costs of the case would come out of the residuary iricome of: tho e'state. At the hearing of the application on Wednesday, it was stated that the estate .was now valued at £28,036, and the annual income from it was £2213, of which more than £IOOO wSro added to the residue annually.