A WIDOW'S CLAIM.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13491, 10 June 1914, Page 5

A WIDOW'S CLAIM.

[UOTTBP Vpjm ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, June 9. At the Supreme Court to-day Mrs. Sarah Ann Green, widow of the late James Green, bootmaker, of Martinborough, made a claim to have her share of deceased's estate increased. James Green died on March sth, 1913, and it appears the plaintiff was the widow of his brother, Thomas Green, who died in 1907. James Green was a widower at the time he married his brother's widow. Under the will of James Green the plaintiff received £679, and her first husband left her a small amount, but she is said to be.now in poor circumstances. It was claimed for the plaintiff that had James Green died intestate she would have received one-third of his estate, or over three times as much as she received; • that she should have received better treatment seeing that she married James Green when he was a cripple, and on the verge of becoming an invalid. Mr. gkerrett (for defendants) said that the case was very different from one in ■which the wife had stood beside her husband, and had helped to build his fortune and had become the mother of his children. Mrs. Green was comparatively a young woman, and if given a large lump sum she might marry again immediately. At the most she should only receive a- small annual allowance. His Honour (the Chief Justice) reserved his decision.