WRIGHT-MORGAN CASE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20281, 14 December 1927, Page 10

WRIGHT-MORGAN CASE.

FURTHER STAGE REACHED. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 13. The Wright-Morgan case, the present phase of which concerns the question as to whether tho plaintiff, Eva Ethel Roberts, one of the beneficiaries under the will of the late E. G. IVright, was legally bound by the deed executed on her behalf under power of attorney during her absence in England, was continued today. Tho dependents were the other beneficiaries and trustees, who include Mr IV. Noswmrthy and the Bank of New Zealand. Sir John Fin v ly, for the defence, moved for a nonsuit, and on this question Mr Justice Adams reserved his decision. 1 Sir John Finday, in opening the case for the defence, said there had been no misrepresentation as suggested by plaintiff. The evidence would show how thoroughly and successfully the bank officials had explained the deed of compromise to Mrs Wright, sen., and Mrs Nosworthy. The meaning of the deed was known to Mr Nosworthy, and _ it was unthinkable that a man of his integrity in his position as co-trus-ec would allow a deed to be executed by his mother-in-law which he considered to bo wrong. It was impossible to escape the conclusion that Mrs Wright was sufficiently seized ■with the purpose of the deed to make her execution of it binding and valid. The case stands part heard.