EXCLUDED FROM WILL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 8

EXCLUDED FROM WILL

| WIDOW'S MISCONDUCT I COURT REF CSSS VARIATION (Pur Press Association.) HAMILTON, hist night. "If 1 were U.) grant this application,, it v. -milll he an inducement for wives t.o leave their husbands, and live with para in.nil's, and I lien seek provision under Ihe wills ni their husbands. who had committed suicide by teasoii of wives' tilts: imducl." remarked Mr. dustier Smith, in refusing an application la, I tea trice Mary lane Slater, who resides ip Hamilton, lor eonsidei ation under the will o' her late husband. Arthur Samuel Shoer. (hi dune H last. Slater committed sun ide at Te I’nno. Taranaki. lie and his wife had keen married 20 years and had reared eight children. In November. I.PLiH. his wile left him and suhseipieni ly : admii.ted .adultery with one Mui-ken, tit Iranktou. where siie stayed. Site still | lives with Maek.cn. I let' liltsl.iaml had Artedi to cel her to lettirn and had lett Taranaki and bought a farm at Morrins i \ tile. Hi' then saw a letter wtitten by Ins wife to their daughter. in which (lie I writer said she wtadd lind it diflicttU to retm in - In 1:1s w ill, made ill Apt il last. tin. husband completely disinherited his I wife, lenvim.', an estate valued ill over I ijJICC to tint eight children. .Mr. Delaine; <\ for the Public Trustee, who opposed the application, sait.l a I series of letter,-’ written by the wife to ; Alael.-en piior to the discovery of the jpdnlterv at Franklin, showed .there had : Perm continuous misconduct which, in j fact, continued to this day. ' ip refusin'.'; tlie application, .11 is ! Hcimr .told the woman that site should ] apply to her paramour for assistance. 1 h-f 'conduct was clearly a bar to varynut the will.