Britain’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will appeal a judgment voiding a farm family’s bequest to the charity, Third Sector Online reports.

A court in Leeds, England, on October 9 found for Christine Gill, a university lecturer, who contended that her father had coerced her mother into leaving the family’s 287-acre North Yorkshire farm, valued at about $3.2-million, to the animal-welfare charity.

Ms. Gill said she only learned of the bequest when her mother died in 2006, seven years after her father’s death, since which time she had run the farm, according to The Independent. She said neither of her parents expressed any support for the charity during their lives and that her mother opposed its antihunting stance.

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