LONG LITIGATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 25, 21 April 1927, Page 13

LONG LITIGATION

MORGAN V. WRIGHT CASE CAVEAT NOW LODGED (.Special to THE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. The Morgan v. Wright case, which has been before the courts for some years, has taken a new phase. It began in the Supreme Court in Christchurch, and went first to the Court of Appeal and then to the Privy Council. Then it came back to the Supreme Court in Christchurch. It has now been revived by a caveat lodgett with the registrar of deeds in Christchurch. The case involves the estate of Mr. E. G. Wright and ar**e out of transactions after his death, concerning his properties.' The Privy Council decided that D. G. Wright was not entitled to purchase the Surrey Hills or Windermere estates. Now the Suriey Hills estate has been advertised for sale on Friday next on behalf of the mortgagee, the Bank of New Zealand. A caveat, however, has been lodged with the registrar of deeds in Christchurch. The caveat is lodged by Lillian Kate Nosworthy, wife of the Hon. W. Nosworthy, and Eva Ethel Roberts, wife of C. C. Roberts, formerly of Ashburton, but now of Dorset. England. Both are daughters of E. G. Wright, and each, under his will, is entitled to an eighth share in his residuary and personal estate. The caveators claim that the land offered for sale comes under the Privy Council’s judgment, and that it is now held subject to the trusts of the will, under which they claim the caveat forbids the registration of any memorandum of transfer affecting the land until the caveat is withdrawn by the caveators, or by an order of the Supreme Court. But it does not forbid the sale of the land conditionally, and it is announced that the sale or Surrey Hills and other properties will take place as advertised in spite of the caveat.