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ORIGINAL. *
IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
Tudgment delivered at.
on__._FRIDAY, 23rd AUGUST 1963
'A. Brooks, Government Printer, Melbourne
6.7639/00
CALCRAFT AND ANOTHER
ve
CALCRAFT
ORDER
ll. Appeal allowed,
2. Order that orders numbered one, two and three of the
decretal order made by the judge at first instance
on the 15th day of March 1963 be set aside and in
lieu thereof order
(a) that in addition to the right of the applicant
%o occupy and use Flat No. 2, 72 New Beach Road,
Darling Point, as provided in the will of the
testator, the executors of the testator's will,
upon the applicant's notifying them in writing
that she desires to surrender her use and
occupancy of the said flat and upon her vacating
the same, pay to her during her widowhood the sum
of Six pounds (£6) per week in lieu of the sum of
Six pounds (£6) per week made payable to her under
the will and codicil in the event of her ceasing
to make the said flat her permanent place of
residence;
(>) that in addition to the sum of Twelve pounds (£12)
per week provided for her by the will of the
testator during her lifetime, the executors pay
to her during her widowhood the sum of Eight
pounds (£8) per week, commencing from the 15th
day of March 1963;
(c) that the additional sum of Eight pounds (£8) per
week aforesaid be charged upon the income and
corpus of property of the testator situated at
Numbaa and his property situated at Miranda
provided that the executors shall be at liberty
to sell either or both of such properties, in
which case the net proceeds of sale of the said
Numbaa property shall be retained by them subject
to such charge as to both income and capital,
and, out of the proceeds of sale of the Miranda
property, the sum of Five thousand pounds (£5000)
shall be retained by them and be subject to such
charge as to both income and capital.
3. Order that the costs of all parties of this appeal be
paid out of the estate of the testator.
4. Order that the executors of the said will do within fourteen
(14) days after the sealing of this order produce to the
District Registrar the probate of the said will with a
true copy of this order endorsed thereon and lodge with
the said District Registrar a separate copy of this order
and that the said District Registrar do endorse on each
of the said copies his certificate that the same is
correct and do forthwith transmit the said separate copy
so certified as aforesaid to the Registrar of Probates
at the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
CALCRAFT AND ANOTHER
Ve
GALGRAFT .
TUDGME JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
RAL, DELIVERED BY McTIERNAN J.
CORAM: McTIERNAN J.
KITTO J.
TAYLOR J.
CALCRAFT AND _AN R
Ve
CALGRAFT
The Court proposes that an order, an outline
of which I give, should be made in this case and that the
parties should submit minutes of the order to the Court when
it is convenient for the Court and that upon the consideration
of the minutes and the hearing of counsel, the Court would
then make the order which it thinks should be made in the
appeal.
The proposals of the Court are that clauses
1, 2 and 3 of the short minutes of order, appearing at p. 41
of the Appeal Book, should be deleted and that the widow's
Tight to the use and occupation of the flat in Beach Road be
a personal one and not as provided in clause 1 and, further,
should she, during her present widowhood notify" the trustees
that she desires to surrender her right. to the use and
occupation of that flat, she is to be entitled as from the
date of the surrender to be paid £6 per week during widowhood.
Further, in addition to all other benefits, she is to be entitled
to £8 per week during her present widowhood. .
With regard to the securing of the benefit,
that is a matter which the parties should discuss amongst
themselves. If they are unable to make some agreement, the
Court should consider that at the adjourned hearing. We think
that provision should be made about that in the draft minutes
which we ask the parties to file.
The carriage of the matters should be in the
hands of the appellant, and the Court thinks that the costs
should be paid out of the estate.
Of course, if the parties cannot agree upon
draft minutes, each side should submit its draft.