HALL ESTATE CASE

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1939, Page 12

HALL ESTATE CASE

WRIT OF ATTACHMENT. [PEB PBESB ASSOCIATION.] GISBORNE, March 8. ” Further litigation arising out of the Frederick Hail Estate properties was heard in th© Supreme Court, this afternoon, when Mr. Justice Northcroft was asked by the Guardian Trust and Executors Company, Ltd., to issue a writ for the attachment of the person of Frederick Thomas Hall for failure to comply with an order of the Court to transfer certain property 'to the company.

His Honor said that the order asked for should be granted. The Court had made an order that Hall should transfer the land and an appeal from that decision having failed, the Court could not but regard the judgment of the Court of Appeal as having full force and to see that it was obeyed.

Dealing with the contention that the transfer was barrel by statute owing to an application to the Mortgage Adjustment Commission, his Honor said that this could not be regarded as having weight sufficient to warrant withholding the order. The Appeal Court, must have taken this objection into account at its hearing. His Honor also rejected other grounds advanced in opposition to the order. None of the objections could prevail, he said, and an order would bo issued for a writ of attachment.