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1 To What Extent Can Or Should Parole Testimony Be Accepted to Construe Or Determine the Provisions of a Will 1892

handle is hein.beal/twexspt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DoUBT AS TO IDENTITY OF LEGATEE.-In a case from Wales, which was recently decided by Mr. Justice Romer, sitting in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in London, a curious conflict arose a, to the identity of a legatee. It seems that the testatrix, whose name was Cina Harding, had bequeathed a number of railway shares to Daniel Harding, who has lost his leg. The only Daniel Harding that appeared from the testimony in her circle of acquain- tances was a nephew of her husband, but while his name was the same as that given in the will, he did not answer the description, since he had never lost either of his legs. However, it appeared that there were two nephews of the husband of the testatrix, both named Edward Harding, each of whom had lost a leg prior to the time when the will was made. Under these remarkable circum- stances, Mr. Justice Romer seems to have had some difficulty in deciding which of the.legless claimants was entitled to the benefit of the will, and was obliged to take a great deal of testimony before satisfying himself as to which was the true beneficiary. Both of the Edward Hardings laid claim to the whole gift, and rejected a propo- sition from their counsel that each should take a half.

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