AN IMPORTANT CASE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16211, 23 August 1923, Page 3

AN IMPORTANT CASE.

rULLOCKS v. DALGETY AND CO

{per Press Association.i

WELLINGTON, this day

A Gisborno case in which the members of the. Tullock family are proceeding against Messrs Dalgety and Co. was carried a. step further in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday. Plaintiffs, Lawrence Bovseu, and Charles Leonard Tullock, executors of the will of Emma Boysen Tullock, late of Los Angeles, Eunice Arnold, wife of Charles Elhthorpe Arnold, Los Angeles,, represented by Sir John Findlay, K.C., and .1. S. Hanna, C. I'. Sk'errett, K.C., and L. 1. Burnard, for the defendant company, claim in respect of £ICCO given to Mrs. Arnold by her mother, and invested in a. station' property, now in the possession of Messrs Dalgety and Co. Plaintiffs seek a declaration that, the guarantee executed by C. J.. Tullock was unauthorised and void, or that tl was obtained by false representations on behalf of Dalgety and Co.

Charles Leonard Tullock, cross-exam-ined, said he would not send his mot her copies of the statement forwarded by Dalgety and Co. showing her position under guarantee, although he sent copies of the station bookkeeper's statements. Lawrence Boysen Tullock said he knew hig sister had an interest of £IOOO ini the station, and the document was, drawn up directing that she should have a full share of the. profits. Had he thought in 1909 the mortgage would have affected her interests, ho would not have signed. Witness dissolved partnership with his mother and brother. He became manager of the station, hut was surprised he had signed the guarantee. The opening statement was made for the defence and the Court adjourned until to-day.