WI PERE TRUST DISPUTE
DISMISSAL OF APPEAL
MEANING OF DEEDS QUESTION OF FEE SIMPLE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Appeal Court this morning delivered judgment in the case raising questions as to the interpretation of certain deeds concerning the Wi Pere Trust estate. The appellants are Mahunga Pere and Te Kani Pere, both of Gisborne, and the respondents Heathcote Beetham Williams and Charles Alfred Smith, trustees of the Wi Pere Trust estate.
The court dismissed the appeal. The judgment of Mr. Justice Blair was affirmed (except as to costs) thai the respondents, the trustees of the estate, arc entitled to the lee simple of the land in question, t<» hold Hie same on terms of trust, and the native appellants have no interest in the land, except such general rights or interest they might have as beneficiaries in the Wi'Pere Trust. An order was made granting to the respondents their costs out of the general estate, both in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, and allowing Judd Brothers costs in the Supreme Court out of the estate. Certain costs were also allowed the appellants out of the estate.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19372, 9 July 1937, Page 13
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192WI PERE TRUST DISPUTE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19372, 9 July 1937, Page 13
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