59 LAWYERS ,GHT OVER BEQUEST
Fifty-nine lawyers—22 senior counsel, 11 juniors and 26 solicitors— were engaged in a case in the Dublin High Court. The action concerns the disposal of come .£20,000 out of the estate of the late Mrs Lewis, widow of Mr Harvey Lewis, a former M.P. for Hackney, and recalls the amazing romance of a "cabby's" <£81),• 000 windfall. Mrs Lewis, in her will, directed that on the sale of her reft! estate .£BO,OOO should be spent in erecting n Harvey Lewis Memorial Hospital in Dublin, but as she died within Ihree months of the will being executed the real estate was vested in her next-of-kin. William Browne, who had been a Dublin cabdriver for 52 years. Browne died 10 days -.Her hearing of his good fortune, and only alnut JS2O/HO is available for the proposed liospiirl. All the local hospitals are represented in ♦ho case, which U expected to provide a Jong legal duel
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 11
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