DECISION RESERVED.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. July 5. In the case Algar versus Tasker, the Appeal Court did not think it necessary to hear counsel for respondent and reserved its decision. The case is an appeal by Haydn Algar, of Kilbirnie, builder, and' Annie Algar, his wife, against Harry James Tasker, of Porirua, mental defective, represented by his administrator, the Public Trustee. For about six weeks prior to September 21, 1926, respondent resided with the appellants, and made gifts to them of £315. From 1907 to 1917 Tasker had been an inmate of fin asylum, and shortly after making these gifts showed evidences of insanity. In October, 1927, he was again committed to a mental asylum and the Public Trustee, as administrator of his estate, brought an action to have the gilts set aside on the grounds that, at the time of making them, Tasker was of unsound mind, and that the Algars had taken ad vantake of his weakness. Mr Justice Smith held that the gifts should be set aside, and an appeal is now being brought against this decision.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18804, 5 July 1929, Page 11
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