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["News and Notes", The West Australian, Friday 10 December 1915, page 6]
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The Supreme Court.--In the Supreme Court yesterday the Chief Justice dealt with two petitions under the Trustee Act, 1900. The first was an application by Mark Rubin, executor of the estate of the late Abraham Davis, pearler, of Broome, who was represented by Mr. T. P. Draper, K.C., and who asked for leave to sell the interest of the estate in the Bullsbrook orchard. It was explained that subsequent to the death of the testator the petitioner had, under the powers conferred upon him by the will, entered into partnership in respect to the property with six other persons, but the operations were not successful. The etlate was indebted to the petitioner for advances amounting to £5,000, and there was owing to the former owner of the orchard, S. W. Copley, £7,959 under a mortgage to secure the unpaid purchase money. There was no ready money available from the estate, and petitioner did not desire to make fur ther advances to carry on the orchard. He therefore asked leave to join with the other partners in the sale of the property as a going concern, or, in the event of the others not agreeing to sell, to dispose of the interest held by the estate on terms approved by the Court. The petition was granted, the costs to be paid by the estate.
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37b["News and Notes", The West Australian, Saturday 29 October 1921, page 8]
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A Pearler's Estate.--In the Supreme Court yesterday, before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert McLillan), Mr. Ross McDonald appeared for the executors in the estate of Abraham Davis, late of Broome, pearler, deceased, namely, Rebecca Rubin. Bernard Rubin, John Lyall Stewart, William Stone, and Harold de Vahl, who sought leave to sell De Vahl Station, in which the deceased held a three-fifths interest, for £3,000 to the Repatriation- Department on the ground that the station had been carried on at a loss since 1917. In the event of that sum not being realised, it was asked that the property might be sold at such price. Various affidavits in support of the petition were tendered, and the Chief Justice granted the application to sell at £3,000, with leave to apply further in the event of that sum not being realised.
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