TAILOR AND HIS WILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 109, 11 May 1931, Page 11

TAILOR AND HIS WILL

COSTLY GRAVE AND UPKEEP RELATIVES GO TO COURT. SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT. Remarkable extracts from the will of a man who was said to have “systematically starved, overworked and beaten’’ his family was read in the Probate Court in London lately. The testator was Mr William Eyre, a journeyman tailor, who died in 1928, and tho Public Trustee sought to propound his will and codicil. The relatives opposed the will on the ground that the testator was of unsound mind at the time he made it. Counsel for the Public Trustee •said that the will was made in .1922, and the codicil in November, 1923. For many years before his death Mr Eyi> was blind, and he dictated the will. He had thirteen children, oi whom some had died. His estate was of the value of about £3500. Testator left £lOO each to two daughters and £5O each to three chums. The will directed that the testator be, buried in a private grave for himself and his two daughters, Lilian and Daisy, if unmarried at the time they died, “the funeral expenses,” the will went on, “to be fixed at £ICO, and to be in first-class style, with motor conveyances for same. Also I wish to have paid the sum of £2 to all my friends attending funeral for their expenses incurred.”