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OmtTOFS WILL CABE. |The validity of the will or wills of Mr. William | Bae Smee has been under discussion in the Probate j . Court, The deceased gentleman waa for many years j Secretary to the Treasury of +he Bank of jBngttad. j In 1859 he made a will By which lie left his property, valued at £12,000, to his wife 5 in 1867, by a second will, he gave his wife only a life interest, and directed that at hir death the money should go to the corporation of Brighton for establishing a public library. This latter will is disputed by the widow and the heir-at-law. The deceased had one delusion —that he was a son of George IVr j and he once wrote to Napoleon III. asking his assistance to recover the Crown of England. The jnry found that at the time the testator made both the wills he was of unsound mind. The Corporation of Brighton were ordered to pay their own costs.
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London, Middlesex, GB

Sat, Dec 13, 1879

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