FURTHER PROVISION
APPLICATION GRANTED. MAINTENANCE OUT OF ESTATE. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, December 8. A decision was given by Mr Justice Kennedy to-day in a ease in which Minnie Isabel Akhurst applied for an order that further provision be made, out of her mother’s estate for her maintenance and support.
Testatrix at the age of 78, was left her son’s fortune and died at the age of 87, leaving her daughter her trinkets etc., worth no more than £BO. The whole of the estate of £6,000 was left to charity. Of this, the amount of £3,800 was bequeathed to the University of Otago for research work in connection with the cause of cancer and the other malignant diseases.
His Honour found that the mother had failed in her duty. The plaintiff had asked that all bequests other than that to the university should be exempt from the incidence of the order. It was clear that she could not prejudice the university and increase the burden which that bequest would have to bear. The allowance to be made must be reduced.
An order was made for the payment of an annuity of £52, the sum of £91)0 to be set aside from the bequest to the university for that purpose and to revert to the university on the plaintiff's death.
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Southland Times, Issue 21263, 9 December 1930, Page 6
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220FURTHER PROVISION Southland Times, Issue 21263, 9 December 1930, Page 6
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