MARIE CORELLI'S WILL
DECISION IN FAVOUR Oh’ FRIEND. Proa, Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 26. (Received April 27, at 5.5 p.m.) Mr Justice Eve decided that Miss Vyvcr was entitled to £IO,OOO under Marie Corelli’s will and also to the royalties under Miss Corelli’s copyrights.—A. and N.Z. Cable. The Chancery Court was recently asked to interpret the will of Marie Corelli, whom counsel described as an adopted child, of origin unknown, with no known # next of kin. The question was whether Miss Bertha Vyvcr, of Stratford, a lifeion it friend of the novelist, was entitled to £IO.OOO deposited in the Bank of Scotland. It wps admitted that Miss Vyyer was entitled to everything which Miss Corelli possessed during Miss Vyver’s lifetime, but the Attorney-General on behalf of the Crown, opposed any bequest operating after the death of the tenant for life on the ground that Miss Corelli was heirless.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19465, 28 April 1925, Page 7
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