DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

ANNUITY C"ANCELLED

BLENHEIM, Jan. 20. That the deed of the annuity should he cancelled, i.s the decision conveyed in the reserved judgment of Sir W. Sim, in the case Emma Murray, Spring Crock (widow of the late Wm. Murray), versus George Henry Eugene Hills. Blenheim, which was heard in tho Supreme Court at Blenheim on December 14th and 15th. The judgment was read by the Registrar. Mrs Murray prayed for an order setting aside and cancelling a deed under which she had covenanted to grant Hills an annuity of £SOO and in another action. Hills proceeded against Mrs Murray to recover certain sums totalling £B3 Os Bd, alleged to he due to him under the terms of the deed.

His Honour’s ,judgment is a lengthy one, occupying some 17 pages of type script. His Honour concludes by finding, as a, fact, that when the deed of the covenant was signed, plaintiff was under the influence of defendant, and that defendant made use of his influence for the purpose of inducing plaintiff to enter into the agreement embodied in the deed.

INDECENT ASSAULT CHARGE. ASHBURTON, Jan. 21. At the Chilli Welfare Court, a farm labourer, aged 17 years, was brought before Mr Orr-Walker, S.M., and charged with having indecently assaulted a girl at Brookside in October and was sentenced to a term not exceeding three years in tho Borstal Institute.