SUPREME COURT ACTION.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19151, 7 November 1927, Page 13

SUPREME COURT ACTION.

HEARING IN PRIVATE RESIDENCE.

One of the rare instances of a sitting of the Supreme Court having been held in a private residence, and the first occasion upon which it has ever sat in Ashburton occurred on Saturday, before Mr Justice Adams, when the initial proceedings in the action of Roberts v. the Bank of New Zealand and the remaining members of the family of the late B. G. Wright, an echo of the Morgan v. Wright case, was heard at the residence of the Hon. Mr Nosworthy. The proceedings, which lasted nearly all, day, consisted of the examination of Mrs Harriet Myra Wright, widow of E. G. Wright, and mother of the plaintiff, regarding the circumstances surrounding the exercise of the power of attorney given to her by Mrs C. C. Roberts while the latter was in England, and by which a deed of compromise was entered into by the beneficiaries, and regarding which Mrs Roberts questions whether that nower of attorney was properly exercised. This unusual procedure was adopted, a,s all the parties recognise that on account of Mrs H. M. W.right'B age and physical disabilities, it was norreasonable to ask her to attend at the Courthouse in Christchurcfe Mr J. H. Upharn, with him Mr E. W White, appeared for plaintiff (Mrs Roberts), Sir John Findlay, K.C., with him Mr A. F. Wright, for the Bank of New Zealand; Mr F. Wilding, K.C., for Mrs Morgan and family, Mr A. C Cotterill for the trustees of E. G. Wright, and Mr Geo. T. Weston, for Douglas George Wright. The case was adjourned to the Supreme Court, at Christch« rch.