COURT OF APPEAL.
MR KNOWLES'S WILL. TRUST DECLARED INVALID. (Peb United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, November 19. An interesting judgment, in which same £40,000 is involved, was delivered by the Appeal Court this morning in the case of Brown and others v. Knowles, respecting tho validity of the following trust in the will of the late Ei. W. Knowles, of Napier:— In trust for suoh charitable, benevolent, and religious institutions, societies, associations, and objects as they (tho trustees} in their uncontrolled discretion shall select. Judges Denniaton, Edwards, Cooper, and Chapman, with Sir Robert Stout dissenting, held that the trust being for benevolent purposes was not necessarily a trust for charitable purposes, aad. waa therefore void. The result of the judgment is that the residuary estate goes, as on an intestacy, to the widoer and daqgfattv: of the Ustatab
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16546, 20 November 1915, Page 4
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