YACHT MOREWA
APPEAL COURT CASE. [per press association.] WELLINGTON, March 16. In the Court of Appeal case, the Pacific Exploration Co., Ltd., (in liquidation) and the Sterling Investments Co., (N.Z.) Ltd., (in liquidation) v. McArthur, the evidence given in the Supreme- Court was traversed, this morning, by counsel for the appellant companies, for the purpose of showing that respondent had not discharged in the affirmative, burden of proof -which he had taken upon himself in his amended statement of defence.
In counsel’s submission, variou's matters of fact put forward by the respondent had to be proved affirmatively, before he could show whether he brought himself within the terms of the transaction, whereby it is alleged that a consideration had been given for the taking over by him of the yacht Morewa.. All these matters depended upon the credibility to be attached to his evidence, and in view of the written records which had been put in as evidence, his oral explana lions should not be accepted. The hearing is proceeding.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1937, Page 7
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