The Gazette 1958-61

hospital and a solicitor's managing clerk. The plaintiff relied for medical evidence on that of a psychiatrist who had not seen the deceased until nearly three years after the will had been executed. Sachs J. pronounced for the will, held that this was a case in which costs should follow the event, and accordingly ordered the plaintiff to pay the costs. Sachs J. also stated that it was not reasonable to go forward with the psychiatrist's investigation, because the plaintiff had no claim upon the bounty of the testator, and he could not see why the costs of this three-day action should be borne by the estate. (Re Gollop deed.—Pearse v. Elliott and Pym. Tht Times, 13 March, 1959)-

Times, Oct. nth 1958. Volume 92 (1958), page 244). Note.— The effect of this decision has now been incorporated in the Administration of Estates Act, 1959. In Probate suits the party who loses may have to pay the costs if he bolsters up a weak case, as costsfollow the event. The plaintiff, a cousin of the deceased, alleged that the last will of the deceased, executed in Feb ruary, 1954, was invalid on the ground of lack of testamentary capacity and want of knowledge and approval. Evidence in support of the will, of which the plaintiff had knowledge prior to the hearing, included that of a doctor, a matron of a

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