COURT OF APPEAL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 242, 7 July 1921, Page 6

COURT OF APPEAL

DISPUTE OVER LAND DISTRIBUTION. A question of distribution of land came before the Court of Appeal yesterday, Their Honours Mr. Justice Sim, Mr. Justice Hosking, Mr. Justice Stringer, and Mr. Justice Adams being on the bench. The case was one in which Mabel Amy Ida Mountain (wife of Thomas John Mountain, of Thames, surveyor) appealed against a decision of His Honour Mr. Justice Cooper, and William Alfred Styak, of Auckland, solicitor, was the reBP ln d the’ Court below the respondent claimed a half interest, with his sistei (the appellant), in a piece of land in the township of Shortland. Styak claimed that the land had been transferred to his mother by his grandmother, upon trust for the plaintiff And his sister, in equal shares. The defendant in the present action) denied there was any trust in favour of the plaintiff and asserted, moreover, that even if there was such trust there was no evidence of it in witting, in accord, with the Statute of Frauds. His Honour, i the Supreme Court, gave judgment for the plaintiff, an appeal being according y Mr. H. P. Bichmond appeared for the appellant, and Mr W. V Anderson for the respondent The h ear Ing of legal argument occupied most ot the day. The Court reserved its deci ■ion.