MRS LIPPE'S WILL

Southland Times, Issue 19510, 9 May 1922, Page 5

MRS LIPPE'S WILL

CONTEST PROBATE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE, May 8. The Lippe probate case was mentioned in ! the Practice Court before Mr Justice Schutt on Saturday. The Judge remarked that it was a peculiar case. He inquired whether the parties were content to have the mat- { ter tried on affidavit. Mr Low, for the executor, said he was jby no means sure that all the facts were : before the Court on affidavit. The Judge said he would set the case down ion the list for hearing subject to any : application to have the matter tried in the Practice. Court. He ordered the discovery , of certain letters which the executor had i referred to. In June last Mrs Lippe’s body was found iat the foot of Southland Gap, Sydr? . She • was a Victorian society woman separated ' from her hrusband, who was described as a I New Zealand guide living in the Dominion. She left will deeding property valued at £lO,OOO to a young man named Malister Smith, with whom she had been associated in the musical world, and who sometimes stayed at her house. Mrs Lippe left a letter for Smith stating she had decided to end ' it all. adding that happiness would come . to her on the other side, where she would wait for him. Recently application was ' lodged in Melbourne for probate of a draft i copy of a will made in February, 1921, by Mrs Lippe. The executor declares that the ! later will whereby Smith became sole bene- • ficiary is invalid. A caveat against the probate application was lodged on behalf of the husband.