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· JUDGMENT.
COMPRADORE EXONERATED.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1924.
WEDDING.
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JACKSON HUNTER. Avery pretty wedding, Holemized ut the St. Andrew's A lengthy judgment was deliver. Church, Kowloon, at 3.80 ed in the International Bank casa Baturday niternoon, when Min on Saturday morning by Mr. Just Mary Ellen Hunter became the Thorens Edward ice Gampertz, which exonerated bride of Mr.
Government Marine the compratore and hie stoff from all Juckros, responsibility for the disappearance Surveyor. The Rev. G. R. Lindsay, of $200,000 from the Bank un asisted by the Rev. G. E. Ar. September 8th, 1922.
rowsmith, afficinted.
Action was
The brile, who were a drons of Brought by the insurers through the International ivory Paris crepe trimmed with Banking Corporation to recover the seed pearls and carried a bouquet Tost mount from the compradore of white flowers, was given away by under his agreement and surety. Mr. W. Russell and was attend. The case was heard some weeksed by Miss A. First, whose dress WOR of shell pink crepe de chine with hat to match, and Miss Mary Hyde, who wore a dress of white crepe de Chine with hat to match.
ngo.
The Hon. Mr. C. 6. Alabaster, K.CO.B.E.. was for the plain. tiffs, instructed by Messrs. Desenn, and Mr. Eldon Poiter and Me Campbell Prasser for the defen- dnets, instructed by Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist.
In delivering the judgment is Honour said this questions raised
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Mr. W. Hyde perforined the offices of best man.
A reception was later hold at the Kowloon Hotel and the couple then eit for Repulse Buy bufore depart.
monn is to be spent.
wero questions of fact and being for Magno, where the honey. hnd put to himself questions which he had answered thought
jury would 21 Could ho Hay thai tho com pradore was at the material times entrusted with these moneys, or
do.
any of them? "la y opinion, snid in Honour, he was not,'' He thought thut Mr. Potter had argued arrectly that the word "eutrusted" gave the keynote of the agreement as far as this case was concerned. It was hopeless to argue that a nina who bad delivered up all money in his hands, had accounted for them and then given on neknowledgment in the una forma, was still en trusted with them.
Responsibility.
The bride's gift to the bridegroom was a writing case and the brideg. room's present to the bride was an opal ring. The two bridestanids wers the recipients of gold and jade pendants."
On the other hand the Manager's styf could call on the compradore' to hand over his key and open his lock and they would open the vault without recourse to him by obtain. ing the duplicate of his key from the other Bank. It was clear that the effective control of the vault was at all times vested in the manager's staff and not in the compradure.
WAS
"I find on these, facts," cou- tinned His Honour, that the cam- According to evidence the com- pradora censed to be entrusted' pradore not his staff had the with these moneys when ba had handling of a great deal of money accounted and handed over and during the day, the bulk of which that he never at any subsequent was that which was issued to time became entrusted with them. them for the day's business.He was given every day current Their responsibility ceased how-cash for which he was bound to ever, euid His Honour, when an account and this be has done.** accounting and a payment was There was no evideurs of any made. The cashier was solely kind to show any act or default responsible for the pineing of the by any member of the compra. correct eh, in the bank vault and dore's stat; such evidence as had it was quite el ar that neither the heen given un this point |comptælore mor any of his staff almost entirely negative. Mr. I put inte, ar took muzey out of, the Garraway, an expert on locks, hind vool with the single exception of given evidence which it was agreed the day on which Mr. Mak wis made it unkely that the locks of sent to get a lakh. This however the vault had been tampered, with was taken from the drawer by Mr. For that they had been opened with Mak in the presence of Mr. fake keys. When the duplicate of Armstrong. after the latter had the vault key, was missed from Mr. | himself spened the sale. Mr. Hodgkin's trousers pocket Armstrong's sidence proved that later returned and new locks were on this necasion nothing else was ordered to be put in, it did not taken from the diawer and nothing seem to have been thought aecen pub la.
sary, said His Honour," to notify the compradore formally that this was being done or to warn bin in any way.
.
Judgment for Defendant.
and
It had been stated that the co- lived on the premises and it was pratiore stuff, or some of them,
Denling with the point of the compradores Recess to the vault and his control over it and its content, His Honour said that it} appeared that access and canti ol did not exist. Under a clause of his agreement he had to use his key to give access to the vault to any officer of the Bank who askel gested that they thus had for it. He had no say as to what opportunities for getting into the was put in, neither did he obeck it, however, lid not been followed vault at night. This suggestion, and tho enshier withdrew sumas! therefrom without nequaiuting, or hours any
up in any
After way.
office person wishing tu acknowledgement to, the Cenget at the contente of the safe pradore. There had been at timesin which tho lakh bundles were is minelt as thirty million dollars worth of
kept would have many difficulties: securities stared in the vhuit Rod at another
Assuming him to be in possession of the compradore'
time a large amount of bullion
belonging to the Pacific Mail but the Compradore knew nothing of
the matter.
No Control of Vault.
to overcome,
y be huri further to open Mt. the grille safe door, and the left Armstrong's lock, the combination,
lad drawer of the safe.
Dealing with the possibility of In my opinion," said flis abstraction from the basket of Honor, the compradore never reserve money lying on Mr. No. 8 Queen's Rd. C. Phone C.4395d and never was intended to Hodgkin's deal on September 23rd
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buve. unrestricted control of the while his attention was momentarily | vault. Nor had he even joint con- centred on a customer, His Ion- frol. The possession of the key at [our thought that it Wak incon.
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