Curtis v Elizabeth Adams and Stanley Wilfred Adams - [1933] NZLR 385

Family Protection — Son of Testator a Mental Defective — Application by Public Trustee as Statutory Administrator of his Estate — Allowance under Act not in fact for Personal Benefit of Child, but in Relief of General Taxpayer — Family Protection Act, 1908, s 33 — Destitute Persons Act, 1910, ss 3, 4 — Mental Defectives Amendment Act, 1921–22, s 7.