ORDER FOR DISCOVERIES
ACTION AGAINST CROWN FAILS. By Tulegrsph—Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 10. Judgment was delivered to-day in the appeal court case of F. J. Rayner v. the King. The order for discoveries made by° the lower court was set aside with costs. In January of this year Rayner filed a petition of right alleging that in October, 1928, he entered into an agreement’ with the Commissioner of State Forests to give the latter an option over certain timber on land in the Tauri-Tutukau forests near Auckland at a consideration’of £35,000, and further that this money was not paid when due. The Crown then filed a plea denying the contract and asserting that, if the contract be proved, Rayner's title to the land was not in order. In March Rayner obtained an order for discoveries against the Grown, who then moved to have the order set aside. This motion was moved in the Court of Appeal. The case centred solely around the much-debated point among legal practitioners whether or not an order for discoveries could be made against the Crown.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1929, Page 11
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