DECISION RESERVED

Southland Times, Issue 19897, 16 June 1926, Page 5

DECISION RESERVED

PRIVY COUNCIL AND NEW ZEALAND APPEAL. THE WRIGHT-NOSWORTHY CASE. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, June 14. The Privy Council reserved its judgment in the New Zealand case Wright versus Morgan and others.—A. and N.Z. The New Zealand Court of Appeal was engaged on April 24, 1925, hearing an appeal against the decision of Mr. Justice Reed in the Wright and Nosworthy case. The appellants, who were the plaintiffs in the court below, were Florence Jenny Myra Morgan, wife of William Arthur Morgan (of “Evansdale"), Mount Somers, farmer, and her infant child, represented by their guardian (Percy Norman Quartermain, of Christchurch, accountant). Respondents, who were the defendants in the court below, were Douglas George Wright, of Windermere. Winslow, farmer, Harriet Myra Wright, of Ashburton, widow’, and the Hon. William Nosworthy, of Mesopotamia Station, Ashburton, farmer. The case related to two properties in the estate of Edward George Wright, who died in 1902, known as Surry Hills and Windermere. The court below found that the fact of the sales and the prices paid was well known to all the beneficiaries, snd no question was ever raised until litigation between Mrs. Morgan and D. G. Wright caused bad feeling. The court held that the right of purchase was assignable, and that D. G. Wright was legally entitled to buy both estates, but not the stock on either. The appeal was against the whole of the judgment except the portion in favour of the beneficiaries. The Court of Appeal held that Douglas Wright was not entitled to buy either Surry Hills or Windermere estates, and it reversed the decision of Mr. Justice Reed on that point. An appeal was then made to the Privy Coun-