COURT OF APPEAL.
[Pek Press Association.]
Wellifgton, March 20.
In the case of Jackson v. Governors of I Wellington College, wherein plaintiff sought to establish that defendants had no right to tho grounds on which the College stands, judgment was given by the Court of Appeal. Tho Court was unanimous of opinion that plaintiff had no locus standi entitling him to object to tho proceedings, tho department's deed under which ho claims as trustee not having been validly executed undor the terms of the Act under which the lands in question were original.y appropriated to the purposes of the College. The Court also were unanimously of opinion that by subsequent legislation the glands became effectually vested in tho Governors of the College for the purposes of a secondary school freed from any requirement of affiliation to tho University of New Zealand. Costs were granted against plaintiff. Tho care of Riddler and others v. Dew was then begun. This is an appeal from the decision of Mr Justice Edwards in a suit by respondent for tho partition of land at tho Hutt.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 March 1901, Page 3
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181COURT OF APPEAL. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 March 1901, Page 3
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