CODICIL TO A WILL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 44, 20 February 1913, Page 5

CODICIL TO A WILL.

AN AUSTRALIAN INTERESTED. (By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, February 19. Dr. Bryan found that Miss Mattingley had been neglected and was suffering from cancer. He cleared out the servants, and arranged that the house should be cleaned. The bequest was due to Miss Mattingley’s gratitude. The testatrix afterwards suffered from delusions, and was insane shortly before her death. Yesterday a cablegram stated the facts as follows: Tn the Probate Court, Hayden. Erskine Starke claimed the revocation of a codicil of the will of Miss Maria Mattingley, of Kensington, bequeathing £7500 to Dr. Frederick Bryan, an Australian, who was Miss Mattingley’s grand nephew, and also £7500 to Mrs Starke, who was a passenger- on the Waratah, Plaintiff alleges that Dr. Bryan unduly influenced the weak-minded testatrix, whose relations are chiefly in Australia. She died on the day the Waratah was supposed to have foundered. The codicil also left the residue of £IO,OOO equally between Bryan and Starke on the conditions that if either predeceased testatrix the whole of the residue was to go to the survivor.