POSSESSION OF PREMISES

Evening Star, Issue 22804, 12 November 1937, Page 8

POSSESSION OF PREMISES

NURSE'S ACTION AGAINST DOCTOR APPEAL COURT FINDS FOR LATTER [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 13. The Court of Appeal delivered judgment in the case Ethel Bethune, of Takaka, nurse, v. Edward _ Coventry Byclder, of Takaka, medical practitioner. an appeal brought on September 15 from the judgment of the Chief Justice in the Supreme Court, Nelson, in which an order for possession of certain premises at Takaka, owned by the respondent and used hy_ the appellant as a maternity hospital, was made in favour of the respondent. The judgment of the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal with costs on the middle scale as from a distance. It was held that the Fair Rents Act, 1936, did not at the relevant times apply to the premises of which possession was sought, and that refusal by the magistrate to grant an order of possession in the proceedings which had boon taken before the matter was heard before the Chief Justice did not raise an estoppal against Bydder.