COURT OF APPEAL

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 98, 28 April 1925, Page 15

COURT OF APPEAL

WRIGHT.NOSWORTHY CASE. ARGUMENT ADJOURNED. (By XciegrapU.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Court of Appeal was engaged today hearing an appeal from the decision of' Mr. Justice Reed in the Wright and Nosworthy case. Appellants (who were plaintiffs in the Court below) are Florence Jenny Myra Morgan (wife of William Arthur Morgan, of Kvandalc, Mount Somers, farmer), and her infant children (appearin" , by their guardian, Percy Norman Quartcrmain, of Christchurch, accountant). Respondents (who were defendants in the Court below) are Douglas George Wriglit, of Windermere, Winslow, farmer; Harriet Myra' Wright, of Ashburton. widow; and the Honourable William Nosworthy, of Mesopotamia Station, Ashburtou, farmer* Counsel for appellants are Messrs. Wilding, K.C., Donnelly and Brassing. Counsel for respondents are: Sir John Findlay, K.C., for William Nosworthy, and Mr. Evans counsel for the other respondents, Upliam and GressonThe case relates to two properties in the estate of Edward George Wright, who died in 1902, known as "Surry Hills and Windermere" The Court below found that the fact of sales and prices paid was well known to all the beneficiaries, and that no question was ever raised until recently, when litigation between Mrs. Morgan and D. G. Wright caused bad feeling. The Court held that the right of purchase was assignable, and that D. G. Wright was legally entitled to buy both estates, but not the stock on-either. The present appeal is against the whole of the judgment, except that portion in favour of the beneficiaries. Argument was adjourned till the Juno sitting, to allow consideration of certain points arising out of Mr. Justice Reed's judgment relating to the taking of accounts.