APPEAL CASE ENDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 111, 6 November 1941, Page 11

APPEAL CASE ENDS

STARTED IN SEPTEMBER

A case started in the Court of Appeal on September 18 has closed after an actual hearing time of thirty-two and a half days.- The first address -lasted until October 9, and the second until October 21. Another address went from 24 to October 29, and opening counsel's address in reply, started on October -SO, finished yesterday. The printed case was in eight volumes, comprising 1579 pages. In the Supreme Court at Gisborne the case lasted thirty-nine days, and more than £6000 in costs was awarded against the unsuccessful litigants. The appellants were Frederick Thomas Hall, painter, of Gisborne, and others, and the respondents the Guardian Trust and Executors Co. of New Zealand, Ltd., Frank Wrey Nolan solicitor, of Gisborne, the Bank ot New Zealand, and the Union Bank of Australia. The dispute was over the estate of the late Frederick Hall, painter and sheepf armer, of Gisborne. Seven counsel were engaged, ! but another was called in to relieve one who had to return to practice m Rotorua. The Court, which consisted of Mr. Justice Kennedy, Mr. Justice Johnston, and Mr. Justice Northcroft, reserved decision. '

Peter Durling, a child living in Haumai Street, Johnsonville, fractured his left arm in a fall today. The Free Ambulance took him to hospital.