NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Reilly v Gengos [2006] NSWSC 139
HEARING DATE(S) : 9 March 2006
JUDGMENT DATE : 10 March 2006
JURISDICTION : Equity Division Probate List
JUDGMENT OF : Rein AJ
DECISION : See [19] and [21].
CATCHWORDS : PROBATE - Construction of will - Factual issue of whether first plaintiff indebted to testator at time of testator's death, requiring debt to be offset against entitlement to recover benefit of bequest - defendants failed to discharge onus of establishing monies were loans and not gifts - Whether particular clause in will required legacy to second plaintiff to be offset against mortgage debt bequeathed to first plaintiff
LEGISLATION CITED : Wills, Probate and Administration Act 1898, s 21
Allgood v Blake (1873) 8 LR Ex 160 Butler v The Trustees Executors and Agency Co Ltd (1906) 3 CLR 435 Coorey v George (NSWSC, 22/02/86, unreported) Coshott v Sakic (1998) 44 NSWLR 667 Edwards v Edwards [1909] AC 275 CASES CITED : Heydon v Perpetual Executors Trustee and Agency Co (WA) Ltd (1930) 45 CLR 111 Peoples v Simpson [2005] NSWSC 355 Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd v Attorney-General (NSW) and Public Trustee (Estate of the late Richard Harris) (NSWSC, 27/3/87, unreported, BC8701477) Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd v Wright; Re Will of James Paul Gee Cox Junior deceased (1987) 9 NSWLR 18 Perrin v Morgan [1943] AC 399 Towns v Wentworth [1858] 11 Moo PC 526; 14 ER 794 Watson v Ralph (1982) 148 CLR 646
Anne Reilly (First Plaintiff) PARTIES : Mark Gregory Reilly (Second Plaintiff) George Gengos (First Defendant) Lance Richard Dowle (Second Defendant)
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