THE JODRELL WILL CASE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " Sescre:ros.".1 SIR,—My attention has only recently been directed to a para- .graph in the Spectator of the 3rd inst., which comments upon the decision in the Jodrell will case ; and I should be obliged by your permitting me, as one of the executors of the Rev. Sir E. R. Jodrell, to correct an error, due, no doubt, to the in- adequate reports hitherto published of a somewhat compli- cated suit. It is not the fact that there is only one "legitimate relative" claiming under the will. There are twenty-five claimants, all of legitimate birth, and the majority of unquestioned legitimate descent. And the legal rights of the majority of the twenty-five claimants were decided by the meaning of the words named," "vested," and "trans- missible," there being no possible doubt as to their being legitimate "relatives." Your paragraph, which has caused some unintentional annoyance, attributes to all the claimants the doubtful position, as regards their descent and relation- ship, of some only of their number.—I am, Sir, &c., RICHARD E. JENNINGS.
Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, S. W., May 17th.
[We took our statement from the report in the Times.—En. Spectator.]
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