SUPREME COURT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 8 February 1918, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

NEW PLYMOUTH SESSIONS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice Edwards, a claim was m:;de by Hamilton Gilmour and the Public Trustee (executors of Allen Macguire) against Laura Berry for a three-fourths share of the estate of Allan Macguire.. The defendant was not represented. Sir John Findlay, for the plaintiffs. Baid that defendant's husTmnd had been ia partnership with Gilmour and Macguire, as ironmongers in New Plymouth. Berry had a threefourths share in the business and the otherß one-eighth each. At the death of Macguire the business was placed in the hands of a receiver to ascertain the value of Macguire's estate for probate. During the receiver's investigatioais it was discovered that Berry had assigned, without the knowledge of his partners, his threefourths interest in the freehold property of the business, which was calculated in the assets of flic business, to his wife. His Honor gave judgment declaring that tho freehold property was part of the assets of the partnership, and defendant was a trustee of the three-fourths share registered in his name. Further consideration was reserved.