Mcbride v Hudson

(1962) 107 CLR 604

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Mcbride
vHudson

Court:

Judges: Dixon CJ
Mctiernan J
Taylor J
Windeyer J

Case References:
Bond v Barrow Haematite Steel Co - (1902) 1 Ch 353
Bothamley v Sherson - (1875) LR 20 Eq 304
Boyd v Thornley - (1925) VLR 569
Clifford Mallam v McFie - (1912) 1 Ch 29
Dodd v Williams - (1921) 1 Ch 178
Evans v Powell - (1909) 1 Ch 784
Gage Crozier v Gutheridge - (1934) Ch 536
Hawkins Public Trustee v Shaw - (1922) 2 Ch 569
Hops v Daniell - (1911) 55 Sol Jo 633
Inglis v Gillins - (1909) 1 Ch 345
Jones v Palmer (No 2) - (1895) 2 Ch 657
Lady Langdale v Briggs - (1856) 8 De G, M & G 391; 44 ER 44; 126 LJ Ch 27
Leeming Turner v Leeming - (1912) 1 Ch 828
Little v O'Brien - (1946) 62 TLR 594; (1946) 175 LTR 406
M'Afee - (1909) 1 IR 124
Mallam v McFie - (1912) 1 Ch 29
McIntyre v McIntyre - (1914) 15 SR (NSW) 45; 31 WN 132
O'Connor Westminster Bank Ltd v O'Connor - (1948) 1 Ch 628
Paine v Countess of Warwick - (1914) 2 KB 486
Porter v Porter - (1930) 31 SR (NSW) 115; 48 WN 17
Ritchie v Trustees Executors and Agency Co Ltd - (1951) 84 CLR 553
Robinson v Addison - (1840) 2 Beav 515; 48 ER 1281
Rose Midland Bank Executor and Trustee Co Ltd v Rose - (1949) 1 Ch 78
Rose Rose v Inland Revenue Commissioners - (1952) 1 Ch 499
Thornley v Boyd - (1925) 36 CLR 526
Turner v Leeming - (1912) 1 Ch 828
Warwick v Willcocks - (1921) 2 Ch 327
Webb v Australian Deposit and Mortgage Bank Ltd - (1910) 11 CLR 223
Willcocks Warwick v Willcocks - (1921) 2 Ch 327

Hearing date: 26 and 27 September 1961
Judgment date: 9 February 1962

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Order

Appeal allowed. Order of the Supreme Court of South Australia varied by deleting the answers to questions 1(a) and 1(f) and by substituting therefor the following answers:

1(a). That pursuant to the will of Norman Harold McBride, his widow, Hilda McBride, became entitled to receive 1,960 shares of £1 each in the capital of Elder Smith & Co Ltd;

1(f). That no exception can be taken to the form of accounting employed by the trustees for the purpose of ascertaining the net profits of each year prior to the death of the said Hilda McBride.

Costs of all parties to the appeal to be paid out of the residuary estate of the testator.

A K Sangster , in reply