FARMER'S ESTATE
LEFT TO HIS MISTRESS WIFE HAS NO CLAIM (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, last night. The rival claims of a wife and an uninarried consort to the estate of Richard Stevens, deceased, farmer of To Kuiti, were decided by Mr. Justice. Herdman in the Supreme Court to-day, when he was asked to grant a declaration that Stevens’ farm bo held by the Public Trustee, in trust for Amelia. Alice Harwell, with whom deceased had lived as her husband since 1909, she having two daughters by him. (Stevens, while in the navy, married a Malta girl in 1892. She and her son still survive.' He had not communicated with her since 1909. The money with which the farm was bought was taken from Miss Harwell’s Savings Bank account, representing partly her own money and partly the profit on a home which they bought and sold at Wanganui. The widow at Malta had already received Stevens’ £2OO life insurance, but the judge decided that Miss Harwell was entitled to the farm property. Stevens died intestate.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 14
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