PROVISION OF A WILL
VALUE SET ON PROPERTY ORDER FOR SALE SOUGHT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. "When a testator says property is not to be sold until it- reaches such and such a price he is looking a long way ahead, and one hesitates before making an order for the property to be sold for considerably less," said the Chief •Juslice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Supreme Court. The trustees of Alexander Hatrick, of Wanganui, arc seeking acceptance of an offer for a warehouse, freehold, in Taupo Quay, Wanganui, which the testator has directed not to be sold for less than £3O.OCC. The testator's children, life tenants under the will, have consented to the order. His 'Honor remarked that the offer was something like one-fourth of the testator's figure. The trustees were asking the court to go a. tremendous way further than any reported case had ever gone, and the order would become a precedent. Judgment was reserved.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17234, 14 April 1930, Page 13
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