WIRELESS MAST
QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP. NOVEL LEGAL POINT. [Special to “Northern Advocate”! GISBORNE, This Day. A novel legal point was decided by Mr E. Walton, S.M., when asked to adjudicate on a claim for the possession of a wireless mast. The position as explained in court was that plaintiff had bohght the mast from a former tenant of defendant, and when the new tenant took possession the mast was allowed to remain on defendant’s property, which adjoined that occupied by plaintiff. The mast remained until plaintiff moved to another house. He then sought to take the mast away, but defendant declined to allow him to do so. The question for the court to decide was whether the wireless mast, which was bolted to a post and sunk in the ground, was a fixture, and therefore the property of the owner of the ground or a chattel.
After hearing legal argument the magistrate held that in such a case the mast was a chattel and gave judgment for plaintiff.
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Northern Advocate, 13 June 1935, Page 7
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168WIRELESS MAST Northern Advocate, 13 June 1935, Page 7
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