NELSON—MONDAY, JUNK 2nd

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13739, 3 June 1913, Page 6

NELSON—MONDAY, JUNK 2nd

,lM«e His Honour tho Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout. -,

IN RH THIS KSTATB OF MARY THOMPSON, DECEASED.

When the application for probate of the will in this estate, dated 28th January. VJI3, and the objection lodged by Mrs A<kx Dodson :i s residuary legatee ru»dii- the -wi.l tlsicud October i6th, 19dl, and-tho J^iblic Trustee, was callodupon, Mr. U. .)- Harlt-y, counsel lor Johan Albin Ahkstrom, executor and kffiitcp tinder the later will, intimated that upon considorivti-on of tlio evidence the advisers of AJr. Ahl&trom had come to tho conclusion that on the ovideuco it.' was impossible to establish the t«*bamentary capacity of the testator. Mr. Ahl&trom had agreed to a sett.e-msnt-and Jio submitted tho terms ior bis Honour's conacnt. 'Vha terms woro an follows: — - 1 Counsel for the executor named in tlwc will dutod 28th Januaiy, 1913, to intimato to tho Chief Jtistico that ho cannot further support his application for i>i..vbato, and that he will not resis.. a trraut oi probate to the executor nan:'.-'-'! in tho will dated ib'th October, 2 '>: •ithcr the Publk Trustee nor Mr. ivdsrm cak for ousts against John.;! 'Aiijiu Alilstrom in tlie proceedII That tlis question of-whether coete shoul;i ?k> aliov, L-a to Johan Albin Ahl-stjco-iv., ;:s OAifuuir rinmed in the will of. Jfuxu-.'.vv. Wl'A, u\.t r.f the estate of tho dapivvvMl, !i« avr.i' d in Wellington belfcHP& the Chief Justice on a dato to suit the r >nw\!iwco v, aio solicitor for the said Joli^-n Albin AhJstrom. Bi ■ H"n<>^r t h ?"> orobato ot <ijke Will dated October 16th, 1911, wim-i i-'i'vcr-j tho wh-f-'le estate to her adoj>t S tian'Kiilvr, Mrs. Dodson less tito ';;i-'i;-i h:yn s ts. which include ■fiSOO to All "Saints' Clinvch, £50 to tho Wynouth brethroti, £50 to tho Congrega'tioun! Clmn-li.. };IW to St. Andrew * Orphan^e, £:>0 to tho Old People's Homo, and £50 to tho Nelson Institute and Library. Mr C «1 Hnrl:y. with a\m MX. J.Hmilkcr.'^pt^^jrcrfcr Mr. A. J. Ahh sfci-Qm ;nt! Sir .lolin Findlay, with him Mr..!'l I?. Moore, for Mrs Dodson, and tho Public Tnistoo respectively.

This concluded the business