DISPUTED WILL CASE

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9090, 8 July 1915, Page 2

DISPUTED WILL CASE

Bj Telegraph—Press Association —Conyrlghl LONDON, July 6. In the Probate Court the hearing of an action arising out of the £50,000 will of the late Thomas Curran, a British M.P., formerly of New South Wales, was continued. The plaintiff, George Curran, propounds the 1905 will- The defendants are the eldest son, Thomas, and James, who allege that their father was not of sound mental capacity, and ask the court to pronounce the 1902 will valid.. Monsiguor O’Brien, of Sydney, in his evidence taken in commission, stated that when he visited the Currans he heard the wife taunting her husband with pampering Thomas. "Witness told her she was a most unnatural mother, and sadly lacking in wifely qualities. Tho testator informed Monsignor O’Brien that he drank a bottle of whisky daily. Witness added that Curran was a coward in his home, was as dumb as an oyster when his wife was present. Sir Edmund Barton gave evidence that he know the testator for many years, who seemed proud of his son Tom. The latter, in his evidence, said his mother disliked him, and was .always poisoning his father’s mind against him.