PROBATE OF WILL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20538, 2 October 1936, Page 14

PROBATE OF WILL

APPEAL LODGED By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, October 1. Tire Appeal Court to-day heard the appeal of Robert Keith Clemow. of Auckland and others, versus the Guardian Trust and others. The case concerns legacies totalling £950 under the will of Mr James Joseph Burt Veale, of Auckland, which were granted the appellants in the will but not in subsequent Codicils. In the Supreme Court case at Auckland, the testamentary capacity of Mr Veale, who was 72 years of age at the time of his death, and had made codicils a few months prior to his demise, was questioned, but Mr Justice Callan granted probate of the will, and both codicils. It is against this granting of probate that the appeal is being lodged.

Mr H. M. Rogerson, of Auckland, for appellants, contended that the evidence in the Supreme Court proved that at the time the codicils were executed the testator's mind was poisoned and his sense of justice perverted. Counsel proceeded throughout the afternoon to deal with the evidence given in the court below and the court adjourned until to-morrow.