CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892 — Page 184

H

suolation

FORESCH

OFFICE

Statement of facts

The heirs-at-law of Captans

Hemmersam

bring

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a lawsuit.

against the tectamentary

heirs

constituted by his wife lors.

Hemmersam

and seek to

prove

that the joint will, drown up by Captain Johann Hemmersam and Christine Dorothea, née Henningsen

and

at

antified by the & Consul it

Konglong

on

Jan. 25.1871, is

null and void. Against this

the bedamentary

heirs

plead

that the form of the will is in accordance with English low

as

enforced at Kanglong.

The Landgericht has supported, in the main, the contention.

plaintiffs, by assuming

7

the

on the

strength of the enclosed declaration of the Imperial V. Consul at Hongkong

of July

15

1889

that that the

Wall