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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 543, 11 December 1890, Page 2

A peculiar will case came before the Equity Court at Sydney the other day. William Coull, a man of considerable wealth, who resided at Picton, made a will in 1886 leaving lauded property worth about £BO,OOO to hi| nephew George Smith, on ooodiuqn.that the property should revert to the Presbyteriatf Church at —— In the event of his nepqew dy.ug without issue, Coull died last ysar, his nephew having died before him without issue, and the Presbyterian Assembly claimed the property. The Supreme Courts however, directed the Curator ot Intestate Estates to tube possession. To this the Curator entered a -demurrer, ca the ground that tbe bequest was’void owing to uncertainty, it having been apparently the intention of the testator to devise the property to some apeulflo' church, wmob, however, was not mentioned. Th* Court upheld this view, and declined to recognise the laim of the Presbyterian Assembly, as they held it vu not intended to make a general bequest for church purposes.