APPEAL COURT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Appeal Court gave judgment today in Riddiford v. the Borough of Hutt, which is of interest as bearing on the vexed question of street widening. The majority of the court held that the owner of land on subdividing it for sale is not bound to dedicate land for widening the street under the Public Works Act where allotments front only to the existing street, and the owner is not laying out new streets. In this case the owner had " the land, and claimed compensp i the borough, but the court lv as not entitled to compensation, a. no Chief Justice dissented, considering the owner wa» bound Ao dadlnate and entitled to compsnaation.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 21 April 1904, Page 4
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