DISPUTE OVER A WILL

Otago Witness, Issue 2803, 4 December 1907, Page 29

DISPUTE OVER A WILL

LONDON, November 26. The Court of Appeal upheld the late Mr Justice Kekewich's decision allowing Mrs JaUand to retain the income on £180,000 left by the late Mr Wagstaff. Mrs Wagetaff surrendered to the police in November, 1906, stating that when she married James Poole Wagetaff on December 21, 1893, her first husband, Alfred Gibson Jalland, to whom she was married on March 18, 1884, was then alive. She produced the certificates of both marriages, and made statements to police officers, in one of which she said that when she u.nrried the second time not only did ehe know that her husband was alive, but that Mr Wagstaff, whom she married on the second occasion, was also aware of the fact. On the bigamy charge she was sentenced, to three daye' imprisonment, it having been proved that the first marriage was one in form only. 'The Wagstaff Ve-irs claimed the estate, but Mr Justice Kekewich gave judgment for Mrs JaUand, who thus became entitled to a life interest in the estate of £180,000 left by Mr Vv'agstaff.