A FARMER'S WILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20150, 19 May 1928, Page 8

A FARMER'S WILL

APPLICATION TO COURT SON LEFT WITHOUT MEANS [ Per Press Association 1 CHRISTCHURCH, May .18. The late Charles Lewis, farmer of Hawke's Bay, was survived by a widow, four daughters and three sons, each of whom received £5OOO during his life time. He left an estate of £14,000 but no part of it was left to one of his sons, Brian Llansanwyr Lewis, who, having lost his £5OOO on a farming venture was without means. Brian made application before Air Justice Adams to-day under the Family Protection Act and the beneficiaries under the will, who, with the executors were the defendants, were in agreement that he should receive £4OOO from the estate. The Judge said that though the parties might be agreeable upon ‘‘ a fair thing,” the Court could not. concern itself with “a fair thing” which would moan, in effect, making a new will. His Honour pointed out. that the grand children of the testator should have been represented at the hearing. Such, an application as was before the Court did not come under the Family Protection Act and he could not make a.i order. He would consider the case when it was properly before the Court.