CLAIM FAILS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 16, 18 July 1940, Page 13

CLAIM FAILS

£52,000 INVOLVED

GISBORNE ESTATE CASE

(By Telegraph — Press Association.)

GISBORNE. This Day.

Holding that all the complaints of fraud and conspiracy were without foundation, a judgment of Mr. Justice Callan, delivered in the Supreme Court today, dismissed a claim amounting to £52,000 in what was known as the Hall Estate Case. The case was one in which the children of the late Mr. Fred Hall proceeded against the Guardian Trust Company, the Bank of New Zealand, the Union Bank of Australia, Frank ' Wrey Nolan, and Douglas Campbell Furdie on various grounds connected with the administration of Mr. Hall's estate. The hearing of the case extended over two months and the judgment is a- document of 273 pages.

Having found that the allegations made by the plaintiffs were unfounded, his Honour commented that no plaintiff had established the right of award of damages, no ground was shown for the removal from the executorship or the trusteeship of the Guardian' Trust Company or Nolan, there was no ground for the order of an inquiry as to anything or for the taking of accounts, and that no declaratory order or judgment would be made. His Honour added that the exact form of the judgment would be held over for further consideration, pending later discussions regarding the question of costs.