NGAERE WILL CASE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 20, 12 August 1920, Page 5

NGAERE WILL CASE.

The decision of Mr Justice Chapman in the action between John Coleman v. G.W. Taylor and T. E. Coleman, and the same v. G. W. Tayler, T. E. Coleman, Arthur Coleman, and S. D. Coleman, has now been . announced. In the first action it was • set out that Henry Coleman,, of Ngaere, farmer, died in December, 1914, leaving his father, William Coleman, as his next-of-kin. On February 2, 1915, the latter was granted letters of administration, and the plaintiff claimed that by a deed dated December 12, 1916, William Coleman assigned to John Coleman all his interest in the estate of Henry Coleman. William Coleman died on September 25, 1917, without having executed in favor of the plaintiff a registered memorandum of transfer of the land which he had purported to assign. Administration of the estate of the said Henry Coleman was granted the defendants, T. K. Coleman and G. W. Tayler, as executors of William Coleman's will. Tlie plaintiff having been refused a transfer of the land to him, sues for an order that defendants execute a transfer ill his favor.

The second action related to another property of which William Coleman was the owner, and which plaintiff stated had been transferred to his wife, Sarah Coleman (who died April 10, 1918). The finding was that William Coleman was not 1 in strictness entitled to dispose of his estate in his lifetime, but if he had completely dispose 1 of any part of it the person acquiring that part would have acquired a good title. This amounts to judgment for the defendants in both cases.