Fred Thomas - papers concerning Dr James Mitchell's Great Will Case of 1869, 2004

MLMSS 7385/Box 1X

fonds

2004

441668

0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box)
Textual Records - (typescript)

James Mitchell, physician and industrialist, was the father of David Scott Mitchell after whom the Mitchell Library is named. By a will made just before his death on 1 February 1869, Dr Mitchell named a confidence man, William Ernest Wolfskehl, as sole executor. Mitchell's family contested the will on the grounds of undue influence exerted by Wolfskell and eventually won the case in the Supreme Court.

1. Extracts relative to Dr James Mitchell's Great Will Case as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald of May 1869.
2. Transcribed copy of the court case held at the Supreme Court of NSW which ran from 3 May to 13 May 1869