MORGAN V. WRIGHT.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18429, 9 July 1925, Page 13

MORGAN V. WRIGHT.

DECISION RESERVED. (rRF.SS ASSOCIATION TEI.EGXAM.) WELLINGTON, July S. In tho appeal case, Morgan sv. Wright, Mr Myers, in reply, quoted a case to show that if a trustee was alive ho would no doubt have been called although the transaction was attacked 38 years.after the sale, therefore why could Douglas Wright not have beeu called to give evidence and why was he not called? There was suspicion in this case, just as in the one under discussion as regards the sale of land to a trustee. , , Sir Robert Stout: But the facts or the case quoted are entirely different from those in the case now bciorc the Court, and 1 fail to seo then- application. ,' . , . t Mr Mvers: Mv learned friend introduced the ease'and I am trying to shew that it \s not'-an authority m,his favour, but in ours.* I submit, the met that time was the essence ot the contract and had nothing to do with the sale'. .The. whole ■purchase of the land is under extremely suspicious circumstances.' since it ii> to be noted, aloi-g with other things, that a few months afterwards Douglas AY right began to buy Up the trust estate. Mr Justice MacGregor: What is the position cs to N<iMvorthy\s guarantee i . Mr Gresson: It caii be taJjen as admitted that from 1!»17 onwards Douglas AVright guaranteed Nosworthv for a large sum of money. The Court reserved its decision.