LAW REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1402, 30 March 1912, Page 3

LAW REPORTS.

COUHT OF APPEAL. RIGHTS OF ADOPTED CHILD. The Court of Appeal sittings were resumed yesterday, when argument wan concluded in tlio caso in which the Court asked for a declaration as to (ho rights <>f nu adopted child of the wife of the lato Anders Andersen, shc?p-farinor, of i'dilliOTriton, drec.istd. Tl|> case preyiously came before .Mr. Justice Chapman in the form of an originating summons I" tho Supreme Court. ]iv his Honour's direction the caso was removed into llio Court oi Appeal for argument. Particulars wero published in yesterday's issue, On llio Bench yesterday were the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), .Mr. .lustico Williams, Mr. .lustico Dcnnistoii, Mr. Justicc Edwards, and Mr. Justice Chapman. llie Public Trustee, as executor of the will was plaintill, and the adopted child -KllMbi'lh Dorothea Blinder I'ilkington, wife of William Andrew Pilkinglon, farmer, of Ptikekohe, defendant. t \i7 - V, 1 ' , 1 sk «relt, K'.C, with him Mr. J. \\. Macdonnld, appeared for tho Vu\ylic lrustce, and Mr. T. Cotter, K.C., of Auckland, with him Mr. C. ,1. Schnauer, of Auckland, for Mrs. I'ilkington. llio Court rosen-ed decision in tho ca«e and adjourned until Monday.