CROWN'S MINERAL RIGHTS.
AN APPEAL LODGED. [BT TELEGRAM. —PB.MS ASSOCIATION.] Invercargill, This Day. Notice of appeal has been filed by Mr W. A. Stout againßt the judgment of Justice Sir Joshua Williams in the case Gavin Brighton v. the Minister of Lands and the Commissioner of Lands for Southland, heard at the March sittings,of the Supreme Court. The circumstances are briefly, that the appellant purchased the fee simple of a lease in perpetuity, and considered he was entitled to the coal measures besides the surface rights.
Judge Williams found the former remained the property of the Crown.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 564, 3 May 1913, Page 6
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97CROWN'S MINERAL RIGHTS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 564, 3 May 1913, Page 6
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