FORTUNE FOR DUKE

Opunake Times, 16 January 1934, Page 3

FORTUNE FOR DUKE

£390,000 LEGACY. in a lawsuit which involved an inheritance from his mother estimated to total 1,902,000 dollars U'392,400 at pav), judgment has been given in xavour oi the Luke oi Manchester, stales the British United Press.

Ihe trust is that left by the wiu- of the eightn Duke of Yl-iu-"h(-i ter, Coiisueta iznaga, daughter of Senor Antoiio iznaga tie Vahe, of Louisar.'x, who died in 11)09.

Jltr will was regarded as one jf ihe most complex in legal history. Some expert lawyers conten led that it meant'one thing; others a.sscrted that it meant something quite different. Foui years agi the Duke asked the Supreme Court of New ioik f-.'j" an interpretation of the Anil owing to its peculiar wording. The Special Referee, Mr Juiius IL'lheimer, ruled that the Dike do«s not need to share his mothers fortune with his first wife, the former Miss Helen Zimm?rnutn, of Cincinnati, but only with hiv present wife, formerly Miss Kathleen Dawes, the. London actress. Owns Three Castles. After his first duchess had < bta'neci a divorce irom him in May, Idol, the duke married Miss Doves, a former London actress, in December 1931

Of fhe first ma:'age there -we fviir children: Viscount Mandeviile, lord Elward Monutaga, La ly Mary Alice Montagu, and L.uiy Ellen Millie tut Montagu. Ux duke owui three castles and a country horse, tut, as lie state i recently, hu cannot affori to iive in any if trem. When in he liva.-i in a flat, rr in an hotel. Iwo of his casvJes are in lre-and—-one, Kylemure Castle,, Co. Armagh. His third castle is known o b Kimloifca Castle, St. jNTeots, Huntingdonshire.

When he was informed of the decision, the Duke of Manchester stated: "Of course, I am more than delighted at the ruling, but I cannot say much about the matter until I have heard from New York.

"My mother's will was most complex. It is a terrific document—ulmost a volume. It is quite impossible for any ordinary person to understand what it. is driving :>t. Only lawyers s •/..Id hope to understand it—and it lias taken lawyers all these years."