HUNTER ESTATE
APPEAL BY THE TRUSTEES FAILS DISMISSED BY MAJORITY JUDGMENT. MR JUSTICE BLAIR DISSENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Court of Appeal', by a majority judgment—that of the 'Chief Justice (Sir. M. Myers) and Messrs Justices Kennedy, Callan and Northcroft, with Mr Justice Blair dissenting —dismissed the appeal of the trustees, with costs on the highest scale, in the case of C. P. Hunter and T. P. Hunter versus E. N. Hunter. As a result of a hearing in the Supreme Court,. which lasted from June 17 to August 3, 1937, and in which a great deal of argument and evidence were put forward on the management Of the farm at Porangahau which is the chief asset of the estate, Mr Justice Smith directed the removal of. Cyril Paul Hunter, Akitio, and Thomas Percy Hunter, Porangahau, from the positions "bf trustees and the former from the office of executor of Sir George Hunter’s will. The New Zealand Insurance Company, Ltd., was appointed trustee and executor. Plaintiff in that case was Sir George Hunter's widow. In an action the hearing of which began in the Court of Appeal on April 8 last, the displaced trustees appealed against Mr Justice Smith’s judgment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1938, Page 8
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