CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936 — Page 45

No. 1. Account for the Com- missioner 4th April, 1935.

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En the Privy Council.

ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.

Between

(APPELLATE JURISDICTION.)

HAROLD JOHN ARMSTRONG and Appellants

MICHAEL HOWARD TURNER

and

THE ESTATE DUTY COMMISSIONER. Respondent

RECORD OF

No. 1.

PROCEEDINGS.

Account for the Commissioner.

ACCOUNT FOR THE COMMISSIONER.

ESTATE DUTY ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1932.

IN THE MATTER OF SIR CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, Knight, C.M.G., late of Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, Financier, deceased.

We, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD LEONARD SHENTON, Knight, and MICHAEL HOWARD TURNER, both of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Solicitors, make oath and say as follows:-

1. We are the present Trustees of the Will of the above deceased dated 20 the 17th day of April 1925 and two Codicils thereto both dated the 25th day of May 1926, all of which were duly proved in the Supreme Court of Hongkong in its Probate Jurisdiction on the 9th day of September 1926. The above deceased died at No. 1, Conduit Road, Victoria aforesaid on the 27th day of May 1926. The said Will and Codicils were proved by the said Sir William Edward Leonard Shenton, Reginald Frederick Mattingly and the deceased's widow Lady Maria Christine Chater.

2. The said Reginald Frederick Mattingly died on the 29th day of December 1926 and the said Lady Maria Christine Chater died on the 11th day of March 1935.

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