SUPREME COURT.
FULLER AND SONS' CITY LIOASEK. .Reserved judgment was delivered bv the Chief Justice (.Sir Hubert Stout) yesterday m the casfi.in which a declaratory judgment (interpreting Suction Ml of the -Municipal Corporal ions Act, I'.IOB) was sought from I ho' Supreme Court in the matter of certain city leases in Ihe Club Hotel block. The parties were John Miller and Sons, plaintiffs, and the Weilington City Corporation, defendants. Air. 1. Young appeared for Fuller and Sons, while the City Solicitor (Mr. J. O Shea) appeared for tlio corporation. It appears that Fuller and Sons hold three leases of the following description: —(I) For three years from January 1, 1511; (2) for 21 years from Starch 1, 1905; (3) for six years from January 1, '1908. The question for determination was whether (under Section Ml of the Act) flic Corporation was authorised to accept, the surrender of tho leases and to grant to Fuller and Sons new leases- for an ordinal term of one year from January 1, 1913, with a provision for renewed terms of M years in perpetuity at a lent to be fixed by valuation. His Honour answered the tiuestion in the affirmative.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1584, 30 October 1912, Page 11
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196SUPREME COURT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1584, 30 October 1912, Page 11
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