LOVED SWISS GIRL

Putaruru Press, Volume III, Issue 108, 12 November 1925, Page 8

LOVED SWISS GIRL

, SYDNEY . MARINER’S WILL,. Legal Complications. According to Sydney Probate lawyers, tiio testamentary dispositions of ike late James Brand Simmons, retired mayier-mariner, of Coulter Street,. Gkfdesyille, who died in Switzerland,, will make interesting legul research. The Probate Judge (Air Justice Harvey) granted probate of Mr Simmons ? s will, dated July 31, 1924, on May G. Af. the tim«* .that the will was made testator was jiving at Moudon, Switzerland. He became ill whilst there, and made u -ceond will dated December 31,, 1924, under which he cancelled all previous wills, and made Madeline Joan Franck l . a Swiss girl, with whom ho was sa d to have fallen in leyve, hissole heiress'. Which .'f the testamentary documents will be recognised by the law of New South Wales? Immediately before the Swiss will was signed by the witnesses and theNotary it was lead over by the Notary in French, and the testator, having had. it translated to him, signified that it was correct. Not Signed The witnesses and the Notary then j signed it, but the testator did not, ’as; I he was too weak at, the time. This is according to information supplied' to the New Souji Wales Probate Office from the Swiss Notary. By his will made on July 31, 1924,. and admitted to probate in New South Wales. Mr Simmons berjuenthed to Mrs Freda HoUense Francis, daughter of Madame Dutoit. Majson de Ville,. Mmldon, Switzerland, his property ini. Coulter Street. Chide««vilie, with the dwelling “Claraville, ” and also left her abndutely the policy of assurance on hk life for £s<»o «non after his death as convenient. The residue of the os’ : he left upon trust, to be realised divided into two equal oleve? : h parts for his brother, Alfred Riche • Simmons, absolutely, and the remain er upon trust, in equal shares for h nieces, Beatrice Simmons, Helen mily Simmons, Amy Marion Simrr and Elsie Maud Simmons; and h.V nephews, Stanley James Simmon. d Albert Taylor, of Oottesloc,. West •' ■vtralia, William Thomas Gatward r ? Fiji, and Norris Joseph Lawson. The alne of the estate was £17,573. | i i