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WEDNESDAY, MARCH
MORTGAGE APPEAL
ENDING.
MR. POTTER REPLIES FOR THE APPELLANTS,
LENGTHY ADDRESS.
Court of Appeal when Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., on behalf of the appellants, lengthily. replied to Mr. F. C. Jenkin.
SIR AUSTEN GETS' PIQUED.
(Continued from Pago, 1.).
Eight Subjects.
1928.
Genová, Mar..G. Eight subjects confronted, the public session of the League Coun- cil this morning, the principal enes being a proposal to reduce the number of Council meetings, and the question of constructing new secretariat buildings, but interest was focussed on a subsequent pri- vate meeting to consider the de- mands of the Little Entente, name- ly Czecho Slovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia for an examination of the dispute over the smuggling of machinegun parts into Hungary.
M. Walko, tho" Hungarian Foreign Minister, proviously visit- wased and lengthily conferred with the Italian delegate, Sig. Selaloja at the latter's hotel, Italy being in- volved in the affair owing to the allegation that the parts were -con- signed from Italy.
The recent attack on a Chinese] youth unmed Fung Man-chiu ati Kennedy Road, maile by two eup posed robbers, and his death from stab wounds, forined the subject of a Coroner's enquiry held bofore
"The concluding stages of the Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Contral mortgage appeal case were entered Magistracy yesterday, afternoon. upon this morning in the Full
The jury called comprised Messrs. T. II. Martin__(foreman), L. Dunbar and Woo Tin-cheng,
But Pul-fon, the girl who was with the deceased at the time of Mr. Potter remarked int thoro the attack, was the first witness, was no doubt a Court of equity In reply to the Coroner, she said would prevent an infant from she was 19 years of age, and lived reaping the advantage of his fraud at No. 301, Praya East. She was as far as it could be prevented, married to a man who was but the question was how far now in Singapore, being his kit could a Court of equity go in
It fat wife, but had known the do-ordering restitution? censed before her marriage. In admitted that restitution was the reply to further questions, she said only thing that the Court could she was the young man's sweet- order. heart. After a year'a absence in Singapore, during which she had; returned to Hongkong to visit not heard from the deceased, she
her relatives, arriving here on the menced. 20th of last month.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by ALFRED MOLLEY, 2 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
His Worship: Have you ever told your husband of his exis.
tenee-Witness: No.
Proceeding, witness said that a chance mesling brought them to gether again two days after her return to Hongkong.
You made an assignment with him?Yes. It was arranged that we were to meet outside Kwong Sang Hong Building, in Des Voeux Road, at 7 p.m. the same day.
The Attack.
Restitution Point,
cam-
stopped where payment
He submitted that restitution
Restitution stopped where one began to enforce the contract. On the judgments of eminent judges, it was held that
the Court was, in effect, prevented from enforcing a contract against an infant, which, in fact, was avoided.
His Bubmission was that the order, such as the trial Judge had made, was not only, in effect, con- firming the contract, but
Was
literally enforcing it in the fullest possible way; because one could not do more than pay principle
and interest.
Dealing with a distinction which appeared to have been made by the trial Judge on an authority in his judgment, Mr. Potter went on to
The discussion in public session of the question of non-ratification concluded under the auspices of of agreemonts, and conventions the League of Nations, including the 1926 Opium Convention was
protracted that the private sea- slon had to be postponed until to- morrow,--Reuter,
"CUTTY SARK'S" OLD COMMANDER.
very
(Continued from Påge 1.) time-and while he worked his apprentices hard he was keenly interested in their welfare and in fair weather was generally ready to exchange a joke with them or ask them one of his innumer able pet conundrums-the answers to which they were always care- ful not to know.
Such was the man who did so
At this second meeting, she said, they went on a long waik which
If the Court looked at the cases. took them finally to Kennedy relied upon by Mr. Jenkin, they Rand, near Monmouth Path. She would and that, where the Court had not told anyone of the meet-ordered restitution, in every case ing.
it disaffirmed the contract and did not confirm it. The highest he While deceased was sitting on could put his submission at was that the railings on the outside of the they stopped short in effect once road, engaged in a long conversa-they enforced the contract. Lion with her, two men appeared from the direction of Wanchai and attacked them. While one tackled the deceased, the other man threw his arms around her, and it was at this moment that she heard the deceased call out (the only words he uttered during the whole period of the incident), to let the men have her trinkets.
She was terrified by the sight of what she could only divine in the darkness as a sharp-pointed Instrument with which the robber was threatening her. She handed over a bangle, and he also snatch-be enforced.
the dome of his head, as though ed her wrist-watch and jerked off a gold necklace. The men then
blown in by strong winds and beat- and his hands were ing seas, fled.
He submitted that they were not "ropehockey," as sailors say, and With the object of going to the tied by reason of the fact that the still strong and hard for all his Police Station to make a report of infants happened to be plaintiffs, years. "An old eloquent" they the affair, she and the deceased always bearing in mind that they say of ancient active statesmen, an had proceeded some way Monmouth Path when he said he of the contract which had, admitted eloquence spoke only to the ini- down were forced into Court by reason old master mariner this whose had been stabbed, and sank downly, been avoided. They were forced liate of the sea. To the shoreman on the steps. She called out for into Court by reason of the fact that he looked like a little local prench- assistance, but it was not until the defendants had said they were half an hour afterwards that at-going to sell the plaintiffs' property er in his old-fashioned black tention was attracted. A whistle unless they did .certain thing.
coat and black tie, was blown from a house nearby. After dealing with the question and people arrived on the scene of agency us to a false representa- und began to ask all manner of
tion which might have been made questions. A quarter of an hour by Sung, the interpreter, without Inter, a constable arrived on a
the plaintiffs knowledge, Mr. Polter argued at length on the doctrine of mutor-cycle and took charge.
The following are the replies to the lien and quoted authorities to to-day's questions:- Replying to the Coroner, witness support his contention that the. About half. 2. A chemical substance said she did not know either of fight of lien must be specifically found in certain vexetaules which, by irradia the assailants, but believed she pleaded, whereas Mr. Jenkin had vitamin D. £. Duales
Lisu with ultra-stolet would recognise them again if pleaded, in effect, that a Court of. The metallfestion of wood, fabric, glas they were produced. She knew equity could give any relief, it like, wherely the material becomes ten times that deceased had a gold fingered, whether, it was pleaded or not. ring, set with a Sandakan stone, That, argued Mr. Potter, was not which was stolen from him;
the law.
much to make the old ship famous. ay he would submit that there was He was entertained at a big din- no distinction between law and ner in London a little more than equity and, on the contrary, where three years ago, at which glowing.
were paid to the rules conflicted, the rule of tabutes.
him by submit that; logically speaking, Captain Woodget on the Cutty He would also Captain Millett, who served under equity prevailed.
thero could not be a distinction be- Sark. tween an infant appearing as plaintiff and an infant appearing as small white-bearded man whoin no Captain Woodget was latterly a a defendant. It was obvious from landaman would take for a sailor, the rule of enquity that under no although his features had a peer- circumstances would the contracting look and receded a little under
No Enemica. The mother of the deceased, who was the next witness called, said he was 18 years of age, and as far as she knew he had no enemies, He was a good son and gave her no trouble..
Forced Into Court,
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
of
produces
Bedford.
machine-gun
weight. &. To increase the a strong, for an folutugimai incresas in power by giving each battalion one rokchine-
van company. 6. Inigo Jones; Charire 1. t The island of Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic, which has about. 180 Inhabitanta,* B.
10. A dungeon,
opening only at the top,
He went on to deal with the The ruling tribe, in Mexico at the time of question as to whether the plain the Spanish Invasion under Cortes in 1519, 9. tiffs could have had knowledge of in Fain-weber, near Eloth, as the Red Hea the contents of the documents in where prisoners were frequently forgotten view of their signatures, 48 ro- (Frenck "oublier"); and left to die. 11. 8,424 ferred to by Mr. Jonkin. There was Walle (1791-1829), Sir John Moore was killed no suggestion in the present case in the hour of victory at Coruna, 16 Spain, or in the authorities, continued 1907,
On the day in question ho went out after having taken his supper, Mr. Potter, which would show that without saying where he was go the signature was sufflelent, Even
known languages and dialecta, 12. Charles
was signed.
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ing, but witness heard subse. if it was so, it would not be the first time when the mortgage quently that he had confided to a sufficient evidence of fraud. salesman at Kwong Sang Hong that he had an appointment with the girl.
Fraud Iraputations.
r
The solicitors were writing to one another talking about a re- Sir Henry Gollan remarked that lease and an assignment, but the Questioned if she had any Mr. Jenkin had argued that there plaintiffs idid not know all about it. reason to believe that his death were certain imputations, that those The solicitors were using technical was other than incidental to an imputations pointed to fraud, and terms. How many English armed robbery, witness replied in by his signature he was bound by boys, or even adults, would know the negative, but later accused those imputations.
the meaning of the word release, the girl of having hired the men Mr. Potter submitted that the asked Mr. Potter. He thought to murder her son.
point as made by Mr. Jenkin would very few would. It seemed to be Witness was severaly, reproved give no power in the establishment apparent that the plaintiffa did nót by the Coroner for making "wild of fraud. With regard to express know anything about the release. allegations" without any proof. representation of fraud, there
All Present,
Continuing, Mr. Potter that nature. They had the words marked that all the brothers omission to describe the plain-aigned the rolease, including
She then replied that she had only suspicions on whileh to base this accusation.
was, continued Mr. Potter, not a single suggestion of anything of
re-
Being severely cross-examined as to the import of these sux tiffs as under 21. Was that ex-elder brothers. Did the Court picions, witness made a rambling press representation? asked Mr. really seriously believe that Lo statement to the effect that aho Potter. He went on to say that Lim-yuk, the oldest brother, did know that her son and the girl in practically every case "express not know that Ifin was under 21 |had exchanged ornaments with representation” was spoken of.
their
years of age? They wore all pre.... Mr. Jenkin had made a great sent when the deed was signed. names entwined thereon, It was put to witness that, if ical of the plaintiffs knowing a why did not one of them any that anything, these tokens merely lot about the transactions, Of Hin was an infant? Was it pos proved a relationship which the course they knew and had admitted sible that Li Lim-yuk would have girl herself had frankly, udmitted. They know a settlement of the permitted the possible legal wreck- and should serve to disarm such dispute was being put through ing of the whole settlement by al- suspicions.
and that the trustees wore going lowing the plaintiffs to sign a The jury returned a verdict of They also know they were going to worth the paper it was written on? to distribute the property. document which would not be "wilful murder against persons get certain property assigned to unknown. They added a rider re-them. As regards Hin, it was reason was because the matter was Mr. Potter contended that the commending a better lighting sys clearly proved that he only came never brought to their minds, and tem for theso dark portions of the to Hongkong 20 days before the roadway, and improved police su- pervision through the institution signing of the mortgage, and they did not know that it mat- Ivisited Mr. Davidson's office for of police patrols.
tered.
The case is pro
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