NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Fairbairn v Varvaressos & Ors [2009] NSWSC 272
HEARING DATE(S) : 8 April 2009
JUDGMENT DATE : 9 April 2009
JURISDICTION : Equity Division
JUDGMENT OF : Palmer J
DECISION : Further Amended Summons dismissed.
CATCHWORDS : WILLS – CONSTRUCTION – Devise to 'A' for life, remainder to such of her children as survive and attain twenty-one years but if no such children "then and in that event to" 'B' and 'C' – 'A' is eighty-three and without children – 'B' and 'C' die before termination of life estate – whether gift over of remainder to 'B' and 'C' fails and falls into residue or whether remainder vested in interest in 'B' and 'C' subject to defeasance – rule in Boraston's Case. - HELD: Remainder vested in interest in 'B' and 'C' during their lives.
LEGISLATION CITED : Testator's Family Maintenance and Guardianship of Infants Act 1916 (NSW)
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
- Astor, In re; Astor v Astor [1922] 1 Ch 364 - Boraston's Case (1587) 3 Co Rep 16a [76 ER 664] - Duffield v Duffield (1829) 1 Dow & Cl 268 (6 ER 525) - Fell v Fell (1922) 31 CLR 268 CASES CITED : - Hammersley v Newton (2005) 30 WAR 568 - Hickling v Fair [1899] AC 15 - Lainson v Lainson (1854) 5 De GM & G 754, at 776 per Turner LJ [43 ER at 1063] - Langston v Langston (1834) 2 Cl & Fin 194, at 243 [6 ER 1128 - Phipps v Ackers (1842) 8 ER 539 - Tompkins v Simmons (1931) 44 CLR 546
TEXTS CITED : Jarman on Wills (8th Ed) p 1420
Joanna Marie Fairbairn (Plaintiff) PARTIES : George and Yvette Varvaressos (First Defendants) Kyriakoola Varvaressos (Second Defendant)
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