ISLAM

APPENDIX
London Journalist
Married Mother and Her Daughter
An extraordinary story
of a man who was alleged
to have gone through ceremonies of marriage with
a mother and her daughter without either knowing
that he had "married" the other was told to Mr.
Justice Bateson in the Probate Court
Mrs. Amy Madeline Maxwell, otherwise Macintosh,
of Cambridge-road, Hove, claimed that she was sole
executrix under a will dated July 7, 1926, of Mr. John
Byers Maxwell, a former London editor of a provincial
newspaper, who died on July 6, 1931, in the
County Mental Hospital at Whittingham, Lancashire
Defendant was Mr. Frank Arthur Wilmer, Upper
Tollington Park, Stroudgreen, London, Mrs. Maxwell's
brother.
Mr. J. D. Cassels, K. C. (for Mrs. Maxwell) said
that Mr. Maxwell made five wills. The first was on
Nov. 1 7, 1925, and the other four were made in 1926
on May 13, July 7, Sept
1 and Nov. 3. Mrs. Maxwell
sought to have the will of July 7, 196, established.
Mr. Wilmer said that will was not duly executed ;
alternatively that it was revoked and counter-claimed
for the establishment of the will of Nov. 3, 1926, or
the will of Sept. 1, 1926. Mrs. Maxwell's reply to the
counter-claim was that the execution of these wills
was obtained by Mrs. Mady Newton Wilmer,
plaintiff's mother, who died in 1930.