MORGAN V. WRIGHT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 20 May 1927, Page 7

MORGAN V. WRIGHT.

ANOTHER PHASE IN LITIGATION. (by telegraph—press association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 20. The Morgan v. Wright case developed a fresh phase bo-day, when.Mr Justice Adams heard an application for an order removing caveat from the Registrar of District Lands register. Caveat was lodged by Lilian Kate Nosvvortky, wife of the Hon. W. Nosworthy. and Eva Ethel Roberts, wife of C.' C. Roberts, formerly of Ashburton, but now of Dorset, England. The caveators are the daughters of O. E. G. Wright, a former member of Parliament, who died many years ago, leaving his estates, Surrey Hills and Windermere, in Ashburton county., to members of 'his family.

Th© Surrey Hills ©state was advertised for sale in Christchurch, on ApffM 22 by th© order of the Registrar or the Supreme Court, at th© bequest or th© Bank of New Zealand as miortga<r,pe, I>. T. Wright having given a mortgage over the land to the hank. Tire caveat against the transfer of the titles to th© land was lodged some days before the sale. , _v Th© caveators claimed that the Aama offered for sale came imder the Privy Council’s judgment, and that it 1® now held subject to the trusts of -it. GWright’s will, under which, they daini an interest in the estate as beneficiaries The sale-was gene on with and several blocks of land were sold. ihe bank now asks that caveat preventing the transfer of the titles of purchasers. Findlav. and' with him Mr Wrip-ht, appeared for the bank as plarnttiff in support of tbe application: Mr Andrews, for Mrs Nos worthy, and Mr Upham. for Mrs Roberts, opposed th© application.