COURT OF APPEAL

Northern Advocate, 5 July 1928, Page 6

COURT OF APPEAL

WRIGHT ESTATE CASE. DECISION RESERVED. (From Our Parliamentary Special.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Appeal Court yesterday heard the case of Douglas George Wright, of Winslow, farmer, v. Florence Jenny Myra Morgan, William Nosworthy and others, of Canterbury, in an appeal against the directions of Sir William Sim, delivered in April, concerning the esmte of Edward George Wright deceased. Sir William Sim ordered that the appellant was not entitled to roly on the sale alleged to have been made of the Windemere property to his mother and that he must account for the purchase money of all parts sold by him; also he must account for the proceeds of those parts of Surrey Hills and Windemere sold by him, whether the sales were completed by transfer or not; and he must pay occupation rent of those parts of the two properties from time to time unsold, calculated at certain rates of interest upon values made under the Land Valuation Act. Mr F. Sargent, for the apellant, said ho would abandon the appeal so far as ■the sale of Windemere was concerned and carry it solely against the judge’s directions as to the basis on which occupation rent should be calculated. Mr Donnelly, for the respondents, said the respondents all along had been entitled to rent calculated on the actual value of the land.

The court reserved its decision