Thorner v Major and others – WLR Daily

Posted July 4th, 2008 in estoppel, law reports, wills by sally

Thorner v Major and others [2008] EWCA Civ 232; [2008] WLR (D) 222

“A dedicated help and service in reliance upon a statement did not bind his estate by conscience to create a proprietary estoppel to confer the farm to the claimant even if the deceased had given the farm to the claimant by a will which he subsequently revoked to deny an interest to a third person.”

WLR Daily, 3rd July 2008

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