Five Irish charities are to benefit from the £800,000 estate of a Co Waterford farmer who died three years ago having misnamed the charities to which he left his fortune.
Mr David Spencer, of Killure, Co Waterford, died on November 2nd, 1995. He made a number of small legacies amounting to £24,000 and directed the balance of his estate be allocated in equal shares to the "Waterford branch of the Hospice for Dying"; the National Council for the Blind; and "the Cancer Research Society".
In the High Court yesterday Mr Michael Counihan SC, for the estate's trustees, told Mr Justice Budd Mr Spencer had misnamed the Waterford hospice and the cancer society.
Under an agreement outlined to the court, the Waterford Hospice Movement Ltd and the National Council for the Blind will each get onethird of the estate.
Of the final one-third, 57.5 per cent is to be shared by the Irish Cancer Society and the Cancer Research Advancement Board, while 42.5 per cent goes to St Luke's Cancer Research Fund.
Mr Justice Budd said he would make an order construing the will in the manner agreed.