WIFE AND CONSORT

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 44, 5 December 1929, Page 5

WIFE AND CONSORT

JUDGE INTERPRETS WILL A FARM IN DISPUTE HAMILTON, Dec. 4. ’ Rival claims of a wife and a unmar ried consort to the estate of Richard Stevens, deceased, farmer of To Kmti, were decided by Sir A. L. Hcrdman, m the Supreme Court to-day. He granted a declaration that Stevens * farm was held by the Public Trustee in trust for Amelia Alice Parwell, with whom the deceased lived as a husband since 3909, she having two daughters by Stevens, While in t o navy ho married a Malta girl m 18J-. She and a son still survive. He had not communicated with her since 190 J. The money with which the farm bought was taken from Harwells Saying Bank account, representing pait y her own money, being partly the profi on a home which they bought an sold at Wanganui. The widow at Malta had already eeived Steven’s £2OO life insurance but the Judge decided that Harwell was entitled to the farm piopcrty. Stevens died intestate.