A WEAK CLAIM

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18540, 10 April 1930, Page 4

A WEAK CLAIM

UNFAITHFUL WIFE’S APPLICATION. By Telegraph—Press Association. HAMILTON, April 9. “If I were to grant this application, it would be an inducement for wives to leave their husbands and live with paramours, and then seek provision under the will of their husbands who had committed suicide by reason of the wives’ misconduct,” remarked Judge Smith, in refusing an application by Beatrice Mary Jane Slater, who resides in Hamilton, for consideration under the will of her jate husband, Arthur Samuel Slater. On June 14th last, Slater committed suicide in Taranaki. He and wife had been married 20 years, and had reared eight children. In November, 1928, the wife left him, and subsequently admitting adultery with one Mac Ken at Frankton. where she stayed. She still lives with Mac Ken. The husband had tried to get her to return, and had left Taranaki and bought a farm at Morrinsville. In a will made in April last the husband completely disinherited his wife, ing an estate valued at over £2OOO to his eight children. Delamere More, Public Trustee, who opposed the application, said a series of letters written by the wife to Macken prior to the discovery of adultery at Frankton showed that there had been continuous misconduct, which in fact, pontinued to this day. In refusing the application, His Honour told the woman she should apply to her paramour for assistance. Her conduct was already a bar to varying the will.