Farmer who worked for free stripped of £2m estate
A farmer who worked on a relative's land unpaid for 30 years in the expectation he would one day inherit the £2.1 million estate has had the property taken away from him by appeal judges.
Perhaps he should now sue the estate for his 30 years of back pay owed to him?
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Very sad case - where the CA accepted that there was a strong 'moral claim', but said that such a claim could not overcome the rules on intestacy.
ReplyDeleteShould he sue for back pay? His claim would probably be limited to 6 years - Limitation Act - and then his claim would be limited to quantum meruit (effectively the value of his work - whatever that may be). Difficult.
Does this not prove that the law is a complete arsehole? (as WC Fields once said)
ReplyDeleteA complete travesty of justice. The judge must have senile dementia.