APPEAL T.
[Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 26. The Appeal Court was to have given judgment to-day in- Genet v. Genet, but Mr Justice Williams said that the members of the Court had been unable to agree, and it was therefore impossible to give judgment that day. The Court had reason to suppose that the same question was at present before the English Court of Appeal. The English statutes were exactly in the same terms as the New Zealand statute on this matter, and the Privy Council had laid it down that in such a case the colonial Courts ought to follow the decision in the English Court of Appeal. That would be especially the case in matrimonial causes, where the status of British subjects would be affected by the decision. In these circumstances it was the duty of the Court to hold its hand until the decision of the English Courts is pronounced. Judgment would therefore stand over until the nest sitting of -the Court.
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Evening Star, Issue 13091, 26 October 1908, Page 6
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167APPEAL T. Evening Star, Issue 13091, 26 October 1908, Page 6
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