A WILL CASE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14277, 18 August 1910, Page 5

A WILL CASE.

MAX'S DOUBLE LIFE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 17. The Chief Justice gave judgment in the Supreme Court to-day in a case in which readjustment was sought of the estate of Lawrence Arthur Robert Worthington, life insurance agent, who was killed in a- motor car accident at Bulls in October, 1908. Applicant was the widow, Mrs Caroline Worthington. of Christchurch, and the defendants to the originating summons were Arthur Montague Onglev. and Patrick James Kelly, both of Keilding. trustees under the will. Worthington made his will on 30th September, 1907, leaving £IOO each to Kathleen Merle Worthington and Morna Worthington. infant children. of Hermintrude MacKay, spinster of Petone. The remainder of the estate (which consists in all of an insurance policy for £500), was devised to his wife, to whom he was married at Oamaru. on 22nd September, 1898. There were four children of the marriage. Mrs Worthington states that she did not learn until after her husband's death of his' adultery with. Miss MacKay. who had been mirserycjoverness to the two 'eldest children when the familv had resided in Feild-

The Chief Justice decided the point in accordance with the opinion he had expressed at the hearing of the case. Worthington was bound to provide for the support of his illegitimate children as well, as for those born in wedlock. That was a moral duty cast upon !ii-*i. ,T, iiere was nn evidence that the illocitimate children could be supoo-trd from another quarter, and the application must be dismissed with oosts.