THE MANGATORO CASE.
Argument Continued
(Per PiY3s Association.) Wellington^ Last Night. Dr Findlay, for the defendant .bank in the Mangatoro case said, looting at the ..title with its rumoured 'defects as a Maori lease, no purchaser could have been found at the time for the amount of the mortgage. The bank treated the sale simply as a means of acquiring « legal title and closing the mortgage. The bank had been over indulgent, and if fraud was to be talked about it wu rather on appellant's side, who after taking their money as their manager and after acquiring for fourteen years, now turned and put them to all this expense.'- He asserted the Bale by the registrar was valid, and cannot be disputed. The course adopted had "been followed for 40 years, and had never been canvassed in any judicial decision.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7958, 15 April 1904, Page 2
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140THE MANGATORO CASE. Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7958, 15 April 1904, Page 2
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