NEW ZEALAND CASE
EFFECT OF A WILL PRIVY COUNCIL RESERVES JUDGMENT LONDON, July 24. The Privy Council reserved judgment in the appeal of the New Zealand Attorney-General versus the New Zealand Insurance Company. The case concerns a decision of the Court of Appeal which, by a majority, held that the inclusion of the word "benevolent” in a clause of a will making a public bequest of a sum, now estimated to be about £90,000, resulted in the trust gift being void through uncertainty and vagueness. The money was left by Mrs Catherine Smith, of Auckland, widow of Captain James Smith. The New Zealand Insurance Company is trustee under the will, and the Attorney-General is interested because the matter affects the question of the future of the estate, the residue of .which may go on as in intestacy.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 177, 28 July 1936, Page 7
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