Land Tenancy.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 104, 6 May 1904, Page 2

Land Tenancy.

AX i.VL'KKESTIXG CASK. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. May n. Tho Land Act that compulsory reshienj.fr v>n Crown land shall not hfi enforced against anyone who an interest in a lease under an intestacy, or by virute of a will, that is to say, that where the original lessee, who was. liable Tor compulsory residence has died,his 1 heir and successor shall not Iw coni- ; pelled to reside on the land. The i(|uestiovi wus brought before Mr Justice Cooper if whether the same cx- | euiption from compulsory residvncc I arises in the caw of a co-lessee .>n ;I he death of the residential lessee. [The circumstances of tho case were that four brothers named Pilkington were tenants in common Under a lease. The brother residing on the land died, Arc- his co-lessees, being I not only partners but also succcs!\ors by next of kin under an apparent intestacy, exempt from compulsory residence under section Ml Of Vho three surviving co-lessees, two are at Home, and one. J. ,), l>jlkmgton, is a State schoolmaster „t orirua ; the land is 425 acre* at Kanoi. It was contended, that thev cannot be rensonablv spectral to reside on the Ja,*/,, 'and that they should not, in,>ur forfeiture of their lease fur Calling to do so. His Iloareserved Judgment,