LARGE CLAIM FAILS
DISPUTE OVER PROPERTY COURT ENTERS NONSUIT [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION"] WELLINGTON, Friday Without calling on the defence to give evidence. Mr. Justice Smith, after a five-days hearing in the .Supremo Court at Wellington, to-day entered a nonsuit with oosts approximating £6OO, against Norman Heaton Pike, of Auckland, in his claim against David James Richards, of Wellington, retired professor, and Hoy Nathaniel Barton, of Featherston, sheepfarmer, respectively third and second mortgagees of a Wairarapa property named Bank View, which Pike owned subject to mortgage. Against both defendants as mortgagees in possession, Pike claimed £'looo for alleged neglect, £1250 as occupational rent and an order for accounts. Against Richards alone he sought £B2O as damages for alleged forced sale of stock, an order declaring nidi and void an agreement of June 4, 1035, transferring bis interest in Bank lj,"w to Richards, and an order for the delivery or cancellation of the transfer of property.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22468, 11 July 1936, Page 14
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