HEIR’S TRIP HOME

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16807, 21 November 1928, Page 10

HEIR’S TRIP HOME

CLAIM FOR EXPENSES LEFT £150,000 CASH UNDER WILL (For Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Herbert ■ William Acton Adams, of If papa, North Canterbury, who inherited £150,000 cash under the will of his late father, sued the. executors of the estate in the Supreme Court to-day for ill 500. In 1921 pi a in'till's hither, William Acton Adams, who resided iu England, Sent instruct ions for plaintiff, his wife, daughter and son,.to visit him. C. C. M. Ollivier, attorney in New Zealand for William Acton Adams, provided for the plaintiff a sum of £2500 out of moneys belonging to- William Acton Adams as a reasonable sum to defray the expenses of the voyage. Plaintiff and his family wore affectionately received by William Acton Adams, who, however, instructed his accountants in New Zealand to allow plaintiff only £IOOO on account of expenses. The’ trustees debited plaintiff with the sum of £2500, hut credited him with £IOOO. The expenses exceeded and plaintiff had to appoint a manager. on the Tipapa property, owned by William Acton Adams. .The sum of £ISOO, therefore, was claimed. The defepeo was that the sum of £2500 was loaned or provided by Olliver, who had no authority to make the gift to plaintiff. At the time plaintiff knew that sum was not a, gift by, Ollivier on behalf of William Acton Adams, knew that he has liable to repay the sum to William Acton Adams, and knew that Acton Adams had instructed his accountants to credit plaintiff with the sum of £ICGO. Plaintiff was discharged from his liability to repay that sum, but his liability to repay the sum of £ISOO remained. .Judgment was reserved.