NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Egan v O'Brien [2006] NSWSC 1398
HEARING DATE(S) : 6/12/06 JURISDICTION : Equity Division
JUDGMENT OF : Young CJ in Eq
EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 12/06/2006
DECISION : The property in the will passes to the first defendant who holds it on trust for the deceased's next of kin, the third defendant. Costs of the plaintiff on the trustee basis and costs of the submitting defendants to be paid out of the residue.
CATCHWORDS : WILLS [201]- Construction- Forfeiture under public policy rule- Gift over- Testator left estate to friend or, if he predeceased him, to a charity- Friend convicted of manslaughter of testator- Jones v Westcomb rule- Evidence of intention- Not clear whether testator intended "predecease" to cover other eventualities- Gift passes to friend who holds on constructive trust for deceased's next of kin.
Davis v Worthington [1978] WAR 144 Ekert v Mereider (1993) 32 NSWLR 729 Jones v Westcomb (1711) Prec Ch 316; 24 ER 149 Public Trustee v Hayles (1993) 33 NSWLR 154 Re Callaway [1956] Ch 559 Re DWS Deceased [2001] Ch 568 CASES CITED : Re Fox [1937] 4 All ER 664 Re Lentjes [1990] 3 NZLR 193 Re Nicholson [2004] QSC 480 Re Robertson (1963) 107 Sol Jo 318 Re Rowney (Cooper J, 19.3.1992, unreported) Re Stone [1989] 1 Qd R 351 Union Trustee Co of Australia Ltd v Church of England Property Trust Diocese of Sydney (1946) 46 SR (NSW) 298 Verrell v Jackson [2006] QSC 309
Jeffrey Francis Egan (P) PARTIES : Shane Alan O'Brien (D1) Salvation Army (NSW) Property Trust (D2) Frank Englart (D3)
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