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CLAIM FOR £40,000
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DISPUTE OVER TOBACCO
KING'S FORTUNE.
EXTORTIONATE INTEREST.
JUDGE DISALLOWS "ABOMINABLE” BARGÄIN
Interest at the rate of more Another stage in a family dis-than two thousand per cent, was pute regarding a piece of property said to have been charged in a estimated to be worth $1,000,000, ease which came before Judge part of the estate of the late Mr. Cluer recently at Shoreditch Ean Chiu-nam, managing director County Court. of the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco...
Lewis Vangelden, of Manor Company, was reached at the Road. Stoke Newington, Na Shanghai Mixed Court last week moneylender, sued Albert Cus- when the Court decided. to ad-sens and Mary Jane Cussons, his journ the casa so that the property wife, of Hackney, to recover £7 may be independently valued and due on a promissory note, Ho the contents of the petition con- said he lent £5; to be repaid at sidored,
10s, a wook. “
The case centres in the claim of a female member of Mr. Kan's family against the widow for a sum of money which will give her an income of $40,000 a year to enable her to maintain the same social position she occupied when Mr. Kan was alive. Plaintiff alleges that hor income during Mr. Kan's life was $40,000 a year and that the widow had frequent- ly promised to pay her that sum out of the estate but had never kept hor promise. At the present time, she states in her petition, she is getting $300 a month, which is grossly inadequate and insufficient."
Judge Cluer (looking at the promissory note): I see that there' is £2 interest on 43 in one week, £104 interest on £5 in one year would anyone like to tell me if that is not 2,000 per cent. ? an unconscionable and abomi nable thing..
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Mrs. Cussens, who had signed the note with a cross, stated that she could not read or write, and she said she did not borrow £5, but
£3 128.
Judge Cluer: The next time you borrow from a moneylender have a cheque, so that I can seg These people how much it was.
do not like cheques, because they cost twopence, Anybody would say that the oath of a decent- looking Englishwoman is better than that of a moneylender. will make this £3 126., with inter-
Dr. G. Sellet, who is appearing for the plaintiff, cross-examined the defendant, Kan Pan-szu and brought out the fact that the late Mr. Kan was a big philanthropist ost.
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apd made big donations to chari- Judgment was then enterod, for ty. Defendant stated that both £4 6s. Gd., to be paid at the rate of plaintiff and another female mem-25. 6s, a month. ber of the family received $50,000 worth of shares on the Nanyang Brothers company, and a similar amount was promised to a third femalo mambor but after Mr. Kan's death she became a nun. Defendant said that the household expenses were $1,500 a month, which included clothing, etc. She declined to reveal how much her own private fortune was,-an act which was supported by the Court.
The property involved is part of the $7,000,000 fortune left by the late Mr. Kan. The property is situated in Sinza Road and measures about 60 mow.
Budapest, Feb, 4. As a result of afforts to reduce her weight in order to please the man of her choica, a Hungarian woman died in a hospital here to-day. Mme. S., the wife of a prominent bank director, fall in love with an- other bankor. She was not at all slender, and learned that the banker favoured alim, modern figures. On the advice of a friend, she took regular doses of monkey thyroid gland extract, which is supposed to reduce weight. Mme. S. rapidly became slimmer, but her vitality was so lowered that it resulted in her death,
27 1928
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