CURRAN WILL CASE
LONDON, July 6. Monsignor O’Brien, of Sydney, gave evidence in the Curran will case. He said he visited the Currans, and heard testator’s wife taunting her husband with pampering Thomas. Witness told her she was a most unnatural mother, and sadly lacking in wifely qualities. Testator informed Monsignor O’Brien that he drank a bottle of whisky daily. Witness added that Curran was a coward in his home—dumb as an oyster when his wife was present. (Sir E. ?) Barton gave evidence that he knew testator for many years. He seemed proud of Tom. Thomas Curran gave evidence that his mother disliked him, and was always poisoning his father's mind against him. July 8. The jury returned a verdict that Thomas Curran was mentally unsound when he executed the 1905 will, and that his wife had not exercised any undue influence over him. Judgment was given accordingly. [George Curran propounded the 1905 will.
which his brothers Thomas and James sought to set aside in favour of the 1902 will, and the latter have succeeded.]
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Otago Witness, Issue 3200, 14 July 1915, Page 50
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