Harris v The Beneficiaries of the Estate of Margaret Alice Cooper (deceased) – Jan 2010

The testatrix died in April 2008. By a home-made will, she left her property to the claimant, who was also her executor. The testatrix’s residuary estate was to be divided equally ‘between her surviving relatives’. The claimant gave evidence that the only relatives that the testatrix had mentioned had been her first cousins on her mother’s side, A, F and P. Further, no mention had been made of another first cousin, E, who had not been seen since 1939, A or P’s families, nor any relative on the testatrix’s father’s side.