PRIVY COUNCIL

Evening Star, Issue 19276, 15 June 1926, Page 8

PRIVY COUNCIL

A HEW ZEALAND APPEAL TV RIG HT-NOS WORTHY CASE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 14. (Received Juno 15. at 11 a.m.) The Privy Council reserved its judgment in the New Zealand case Wright versus Morgan and others.—A. and N.Z. Cable. (Tho New Zealand Court of Appeal was engaged on April 24, 1925, hearing an appeal against the decision or Air Justice Reed in the Wright and Nosworthy case. Tho appellants, who were - the plaintiffs in the court below, were Florence Jenny Myra Morgan, wife of William Arthur Morgan (of “ Evansdafe”), Mount Somers, farmer, and her infant child, appeared by their guardian (Percy Norman Quartormain, of Christchurch, accountant). Respondents, who were the defendants in the court below, were Douglas George Wright, of Windermere, Winslow, farmer, Harriet Myra Wright, of Ashburton, widow, and the Hon. William Nosworthy. of Mesopotamia Station, Ashburton,’ farmer. The case related to two properties in tho estate ol Edward George Wright, who died in 1902, known ns Surry Hills and Windermere. The court below found that the fact of the sales and the prices paid was well known to all the beneficiaries, and, no question was ever raised until litigation between Mrs Morgan and D. G. Wright enused bad feeling. Ihe court held that the right of purchase was assignable, and that I). G. Wright was legally entitled to buy both estates, hut not tho stock nu either. The appeal was against the whole of the judgment except the portion in favor of tho beneficiaries. The Court of Appeal hold that Douglas Wright was not entitled to buy either Surry Hills or Windermere estates, and it reversed the decision of Mr Jus Lice Reed on that point. An appeal was then made to the Privy Council.]