INTERPRETATION OF WILL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1920, Page 7

INTERPRETATION OF WILL.

A NGAERIS ESTATE. 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. Taylor, T. E. Coleman, Arthur Coleman and S. R> 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, 1910, William Coleman assigned to John Coleman all his Interest in the estate of Henry Coleman, William Coleman died on September 2.i, 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 tVe said Henry Coleman was grunted the defendants, T, E. Coleman and Or. W. Taylor, as executors of William Coleman's will. The plaintiff having been refused a transfer of the land to him, sues for an order that defendants execute a transfer in his favor. The second action related to another property of whioh William Coleman was the owner, and which plaintiff stated had been transferred to his wife, Sarah Coleman (who die<l April 10, 1918)/ The finding was that William Coleman was not in strictness entitled to dispose of HTs estate in his lifetime, but if he had completely disposed of any part "of it the person acquiring tlfllt part would have acquired a good title. This amounts to judgment for the defendants in both cases.