LEAVE TO APPEAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 101, 2 May 1938, Page 13

LEAVE TO APPEAL.

JEWELLERY CASE

AUCKLAXDER-β APPLICATION , . (Frr«n Our Own Correspondent.) SUVA, April 27. Leave to appeal to the Privy Council against the judgment of the" Supreme Court in the action brought by him against Gladys Neville Windrum was granted to Colin Woollam Anderson, of Auckland, by his Honor the Chief Justice this morning. . The action was one for the recovery of jewellery and a life insurance policy which plaintiff claimed were given to defendant as security for payment of a monthly allowance which" plaintiff agreed to make to defendant while she remained with him. Defendant claimed that the jewellery and life insurance policy, together with certain shares were an absolute gift. In Ills reserved judgment the Chief Justice said he was satisfied that the jewellery and life insurance policy were not transferred as a gift, but as security for the payment to defendant of an allowance of £300 a year. No satisfactory explanation having been given regarding the shares he held that they were a gift. The action was dismised. Through his counsel, Mr. G. F. Grahame, Anderson asked the Court to make an order for the preservation of the subject matter of the action, that is, the jewellery and life policy, pendin" the appeal. The application was opposed by Mr. R. A. Crompton for the defendant, and after citation of authorities by counsel, his Honor reserved bis judgment on the question of the application.