Lord Russell of Killowen:-

In this case their Lordships have to advise His Majesty in relation to an appeal by the executors of one Bertram Murray, deceased and a cross-appeal by one Francis Henry Bridgewater, in an action instituted for the purpose of setting aside a sale by Bridgewater to Murray of Bridgewater's expectant interests under certain wills. Murray was a money-lender who carried on business at Sydney. Bridgewater is a young Englishman who was born on 29th September 1906, and who at the age of 17 arrived in South Australia as an assisted emigrant. For some three or four years he drifted about from one job to another in South Australia and Victoria. Eventually he arrived in Sydney at the end of the year 1927, with about £2 in his pocket.

He had however also a letter (dated 4th October 1927) which he had received from an uncle in England, in which references were made to his interests under the wills of his father and his grandfather. Armed with this letter he went to see Murray whose advertisement he had read in the papers. Murray gave him a few shillings, and cabled to his own solicitors in London (Light and Fulton) for information. In reply he received a cable on 9th Feb