A WILL CASE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 8 April 1913, Page 3

A WILL CASE.

SUPREME COURT RESERVED JUDGMENT.

IN THE ESTATE OF ED.. HOWE. .• Sir Robert Stout's reserved judgment in a will case heard at the last sittings of the Supreme - Court in Wanganui, was read by the Clerk of the local Court on Friday last. George Frederick Newsome and ./jhn Dalziell Brechin, both of Wanganui, were plaintiffs, and Sarah Jane Bolton, of Wellington, Mary Whitside, of Manchester, England, Amy Newsome, Mary Jane Newsome, and Florence Newsome, of Huddersfield, .defendants.'. V .;,-: ' -.•■■.■ '::.'•■• '■' -■' •■'■' ■ '':':: The questions his Honorwwats t asked to decide, with ithe answers appended,' were as follows:— r : Question . I,—Whether the defend ants Amy Newsome, Mary Jane Newsome and Florence Newsome, the children of James Newsome, a son of the James Newsome mentioned in the will of the said testator Edward Howe, are entitled to any interest or estate in the residuary, real arid personal property devised and bequeathed by the said will, and if so,, what interest or estate respectively. Answer.—-The defendants, Amy Newsome, Mary Jane Newsome and Florence Newsome, the children of James Newsome, are entitled in equal shares to the interest their father would have taken if he had lived. Question 2.—Whether the plaintiffs, tho said George Frederick Newsome and John Dalziell Brechin, may proceed to the division of the said residuary estate without regard to the defendants Amy Newsome", Mary Jane Newsome and Florence Newsome, or any claims they or any of them may make to share therein. Answer.—No. Question 3.—How the costs of and incidental to this application ought to be provided for. Answer.—The costs of all parties must come out of the general ; administration expenses of the estate.