A Christchurch Heir

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 289, 21 November 1928, Page 5

A Christchurch Heir

RECEIVES £150,000 FROM FATHER SUES FOR FURTHER £l5OO (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Hubert William Acton Adams of Tipapa, North Canterbury, who inherited £150,000 in cash under the*' will of his late father, sued the executors of the estate in the Supreme Court today for £l5OO. .In 1921 plaintiff’s father. William Acton Adams, who resided in England, sent instructions for plaintiff, his wife, daughter and son, to visit him. C.' C, M. Olliver, attorney in England for William Acton Adams..- provided for plaintiff the sum of £2500 out of; the moneys belonging to William Acton Adams as a reasonable sum to defray expenses on the voyage. Plaintiff and, his family were- affectionately received by William Acton Adams, who however, instructed his accountants in New Zealand to allow only £lOOO on account of expenses. The trustees debited plaintiff with the sum of £2500 but credited him with £lOOO. The expenses exceeded £2500 and plaintiff had to

appoint a manager on the Tipapa property which was then owned by William Acton Adams. The sum of £l5OO therefore was claimed. The defence was that the sum of £2500 was loaned or provided by Olliver who had no authority to make the gift to plaintiff at the time. Plaintiff knew that the sum was not a gift by Olliver on behalf of William Acton Adams and knew that he was liable to repay the sum to William Acton Adams. As Wiliam Acton Adams had' instructed his accountants to credit plaintiff with the sum of <£looo, plaintiff was discharged from his liabilityto repay that sum, but his liability to repay the sum of £l5OO remained. Judgment was reserved.