AFTER FORTY YEARS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 849, 24 August 1933, Page 9

AFTER FORTY YEARS.

Settlement in Supreme Court Action. DISPUTE BETWEEN ESTATES. A dispute between two estates, of forty years’ standing, was settled in the Supreme Court this morning with the consent oi all parties. Mr Justice MacGregor presided. The plaintiffs were Edward Ethelbert M'Cullough, farmer, of Christchurch, and Reginald Eugene Booker, solicitor, of Christchurch, executors in the will of the late Mary Mora, widow (Mr Loughnan). Defendants were Percy George Riches, Town Clerk. Akaroa, surviving trustee in the estate of the late Bernard Mora (Mr Upham) ; Michael Joseph Corrigan, farmer, of Waimate, assignee of the share of Thomas Pascal Mora, in the estate of Bernard Mora (Mr Sim) ; the Bank of New Zealand, Te Kuiti, assignee of the share of Peter Bernard Joseph Mora in the estate (Mr Wright) : Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., Christchurch, assignees of the share »of Benjamin Gaudon Mora in the estate (Mr Wright), and Margaret Kennard Smith and Ruby Thelma Smith, of Ashburton, trustees of the late John Smith, assignees of the share of John Antonio Eustace Mora in the estate. Mr Loughnan said he was pleased to be able to announce a settlement in a dispute of over forty years’ standing and an action first launched in the Supreme Court thirteen years ago involving a dispute between two estates. As the claim was such a long standing one, counsel had agreed that the settlement should be embodied in an order of the Court. Broadly, the settlement was that plaintiff received full settlement of £250, each side paying his own costs. In regard to the incidence of payment, that was given in the order submitted to the Court. To put it in order he asked that an order of the Court be made in terms of the settlement. His Honor: I take it that this is by consent of all parties. Mr Loughnan: That is so. An order was made accordingly.