FAMILY LEFT NOTHING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 2

FAMILY LEFT NOTHING

WOODVILLE MAN’S WILL I t ) . LG . Cbi COURT MAKES AN ORDER • Claiming that they had materially assisted in the building up of the estate, Mrs. Ellen Milne, widow, of \Yopdville* and eight members of her family*; tookaction in the Palmerston Noqth Supreme. Court under the Family Protection Aol against the : trustees, of the estate oi Alexander Milne, late husband of plaintiff, for relief to be provided from the estate. It was stated that deceased had left his family nothing under his will, leaving his estate to a brother in Scotland. Mrs. Milne claimed that she had no means beyond a house and was in need of assistance. The children also applied for assistance on the grounds that they had assisted in the building up of the' estate. , , Mr. Justice MacGregor made an order for £4 a week for Mrs. Milne, «nd an allowance of £2 a week for a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Isobel Clark, of YYoodville. fie did not think he should make an allowance in the casq of the sons, who were between the ages of 20 and 40 years, and were admittedly good workers and able-bodied. Mrs. Milne in her affidavit informed the court that it had been by her industry and the enslaving conditions under which she and her. children lmd had to work, that the deceased s estate had been built up. He had been a cruel and tyrannical husband and father and bad secured a judicial separation on June 1, 1928. Three weeks later he had made his will, cutting out the whole family. An estimate of the present value of the estate (mostly property in the vicinity of Woodville) was declared at £SOOO. ‘