Between: Ada Fanny Bracegirdle of Smart Road near New Plymouth in the Provincial District of Taranaki in New Zealand Widow. Plaintiff. AND: May Drake and others. Defendants. [item]
Production date
1928
Description
Documents pertain to a case filed by widow (Bracegirdle) against married woman (Drake) regarding the final will and testament of the plaintiff, George Bracegirdle. The plaintiff claims she sighted a will belonging to the deceased before his death, that endowed his full estate to her as executrix of his estate. The plaintiff further claims she has been unable to locate the Bracegirdle's will since his death. The defendants (the plaintiff's and deceased's children) confessed judgement in this suit and consented to the probate of the will to be granted to Ada Fanny Bracegirdle.
Documents include:
1. Warrant to sue
2. Writ of summons and statement of claim
3. Praecipe to set down action
4. Affidavit of Claude Horace Weston as to the fitness of Petitioner to be admitted guardian ad litem
5. Petition of Robert Clinton Hughes to be admitted as guardian ad litem
6. Motion for an order that the petitioner be admitted as guardian ad litem on behalf of the defendants Nolan Thomas Bracegirdle and Ruby Miriel Bracegirdle
7. Affidavit of Robert Clinton Hughes in support of petition
8. Warrant to defend (Cuthbert Bracegirdle)
9. Warrant to defend (May Drake and 7 others)
10. Authority to solicitor to consent to judgment (Cuthbert Bracegirdle)
11. Confession of judgment (May Drake and 7 others)
12. Order that Robert Clinton Hughes be admitted as Guardian ad litem on behalf of the defendants Nolan Thomas Bracegirdle and Ruby Miriel Bracegirdle
13. Application and appointment for taxation of plaintiff's costs
14. Application and appointment for taxation of defendant's costs
15. Bill of costs (for taxation) of Messrs Roy, Nicholson & Bennett
16. Registrar's certificate of taxation of costs of plaintiff
17. Registrar's certificate of taxation of costs of defendants
18. Defendants bill of costs
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