RIVAL CLAIMANTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20892, 5 December 1929, Page 10

RIVAL CLAIMANTS.

WIFE AND UNMARRIED CONSORT. CLAIMS OF LATTER SAFEGUARDED. (Per United Press Association.) HAMILTON, December 4. The rival claims of a wife and an unmarried consort to the estate of Richard Stevens, deceased, a farmer, of Te Kuiti, were decided by Mr Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court to-day. His Honor granted a declaration that Stevens’s farm should be held by the Public Trustee in trust for Amelia Alice Harwell, with whom the deceased had lived as husband since 1009, and by whom he had two daughters. While in the navy Stevens married a Malta girl in 1802, She and a son still survive. He had not communicated with her since 1909, The money with which the farm was bought was taken from Harwell’s savings bank account, representing partly her own money and partly the profit on a home which they had bought and sold nt Wanganui. The widow at Malta has already received Stevens’s life insurance of £2OO, but the judge decided that Harwell was entitled to the farm property. Stevens died intestate.