An unsent SMS, a message on a tractor, a poem: the courts say a valid will can take many forms
- Written by Katherine Biber, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
In 1948, as Cecil George Harris lay dying after a tractor accident, he scratched a final message into the vehicle's fender.illustration supplied by: Impact Studios/Dinalie Dabarera.
When a man died by suicide in 2016, a friend found an unsent SMS on his phone:
Dave Nic you and Jack keep all that I have house and superannuation, put my ashes in the...