Legal challenge begins over £1.5m will (From Darlington and Stockton Times)
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Legal challenge begins over £1.5m will
11:03am Tuesday 15th July 2008 in News
A WOMAN who was excluded from her parents will which left their estate to an animal charity was launching a legal challenge today in a bid to overturn it.
Christine Gill will challenge the will after her parents left their £1.5m fortune to the RSPCA.
The disinheritance meant that Potto Carr Farm, near Potto, North Yorkshire, was bequeathed in its 287-acre entirety to the charity.
The case is now going before the Leeds Combined Courts Chancery Division and is expected to last until July 25.
Dr Gill's father, John, died in 1999, leaving Dr Gill, an only child, to care for her mother, Joyce.
Mrs Gill died in August 2006 and it was then that Dr Gill saw her parents wills.
She claims she worked on their farm for 40 years and cared for them in their old age.
The mirror wills were identical and left everything to each other, and then, once they had both died, to the RSPCA.
