Word: keiller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Ontario's Supreme Court, a canny Scot Justice named Keiller MacKay gave a decision that all members of the clan Mackay could cheer. He had found his legal assignment harder than it looked: nowhere in British or Canadian law had he been able to find any precedent for knocking out the deed's clause. But he had been able to marshal a shattering array of recent world opinion. As evidence of what most of the world thinks about such things, Justice MacKay cited...
...courtly Justice J. Keiller MacKay, all this didn't add up to lunacy. Wearying of the proceedings, he suggested that claimants could make more if they could split the estate than they would by fighting on. In the settlement the church took 40%, the relatives 12½%; the three Babes (none of whom answered to the name Wallie Coughlin) split the other...