Daughter sues mum over former mining exec's $30 million farm inheritance
The daughter of a mining executive who was killed in a plane crash 20 years ago, leaving behind a more-than-$30 million fortune, is taking her mother to the Supreme Court for part of an estate she says she was promised.
Sapphire Halliday, the daughter of late mining tycoon Garnet Halliday, is taking legal action against her mother in the Victorian Supreme Court over an alleged broken promise regarding her inheritance. Sapphire claims her mother, Deborah Halliday, promised her a share of the family's 70-hectare farm in Macedon, Victoria, nearly 20 years ago following the death of her father, Garnet, in a 2007 plane crash in Malawi.
Garnet was a senior executive at Paladin, a mining company based in Western Australia, and owned the farm and cattle-breeding business Waterford Charolais, valued at around $3 million at the time. Sapphire's mother denies making the promise and argues some parts of it are legally non-binding. The matter is set to go to mediation next year, with the farm currently estimated to be worth between $14 million and $15 million.
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