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MORTGAGE CASE.
APPEAL TO BE MADE TO......
PRIVY COUNCIL.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1928.
LAND SALES.
CINEMA FILM BURNS.
· LIGHTED CIGARETTE DROPS FROM WINDOW.
A small fire occurred at the Ho
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Two Kowloon lots were disposed After having been already of by,public auction at the offices heard in two courts, the Court of of the Public Works Department Original Jurisdiction and the Full yesterday afternoon. In each case Wa Trading Company's premises Court of Appeal, the Infants' Mart-the lead, which was offered by Mr. at 45 Wyndham Street yesterday when a lighted cigarette fell on a Kage Case is to go before the Privy. West, was sold for the upset piece of cinema film that was dry- Council at Home on a second ap- price, pen). The application for leave to The first lot, comprising 1,550ing in the sun at the back of the appeal to Privy Council was made square feet of land situate on Kow-premises, on the ground floor.
It seems that the cigarette was by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, Instructed loan Inland Lot No. 2,115, Mong- by Mr. M. M. Watson, of Messrs. kok, was put up at $3,487.50 and dropped from a window above, the Johnson, Stokea and Master, to the was knocked down to Mr. A. G.resulting blaze creating no small Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan. Pile, the local architect, who pur- alarm, doing but little damage. and, Mr. Justice Jucks yesterday chased the property on behalf of The fire brigade was called but the film soon burned itself out. The Mr. Wong Kwok-ping. and was granted.
The case is one in which two Mr. Mok Kwok-chicuk, on behalf extent of the damage is placed at younger brothers Lo Kwong-lam of Mr. flo Yau-ki, of No, 61, Kee-$10. and Lo Kwong-hin, of 67 Caine Jung Street, Shamshuipo, purchas- Road, ask that a $400,000 morted the second piece of land, com gage on Hongkong property, con- prising 1,071 square feet of ground Tracted during the settlement of and situate on New Kowloon pay over to them the interim rents their father's will, be declared land Lot No. 1,134, Shamshuipo. end incomes because we have null and void as not being to their Mr. Mok procured the property never had them. "If you made an order on that account now it benefit, by reason of the fact that for $1,339.
would be tantamount to giving when they signed the deeds they
judgment against us for income were not of age and did not know what they were signing. Two paint appeared to be the terms which we have never had." elder brothers, against whom the which their Lordships would lut
Mr.Jenkin added that if the re- nction was brought, Li Keen-chun, pose upon the appellants under spendents were to bring an action 81 Wing Lok Street, and Kan the powers that were given to against the appellants for interim Tong-po, chief manager of the them under the Privy Council Ap-income they would not get judg Bank of East Asia Limited, 10 peal Rules. Under those rules ment because the appellants were PACIFIC SERVICE Des Voeux Rond Central, allege he would ask them to stay execu-not liable for it. that the younger brollers falselyllon of the judgment as a whole, represented themselves to be of the appellants to give security. age in order fraudulently to in- Sir Henry Gollan: What securi duce the elder brothers to enter ty do you anggest? into the mortgage,
Mr. Jenkin replied that the usual method was to refer the question
appent does not call upon us to
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course in this case all you have expenditure of the actual rents | PASSENGER gave judgment for the elder bra. thers, Anding that the plaintiffs in-ordered the appellants to do is to received from the properties, any-
to be gone into sometime and it OUTWARD SERVICE touted to obtain, money to which assign the property, so that willing that the figures would have they knew they were not im-easily in secured."
Mr. Jenkin contined, that, with would possibly facilitate matter mediately entitled and deliberate ly exercised the legal capacity of regard to the question of recurity in the end..
Mr. Jenkin replied that the ap for costs, he was asking that the adults fraudulently and with the intention of denouncing their con- appellants did not pay those nowpellants did not keep accounts. tract if at any time the market that the judgment should not be They had from time to thue, he excented in any shape or form, cantiuued, given information to went against them.
and that his clients would give the respondents although they umple security for due payment were not bound to do so and the of costs if they were ordered to appellants would object to un or-
der to that effect. so by the Privy Council.
Divided Judgments,
Order for Interest.
Sir Henry Gallan remarked that he did not want the parties to in- Mr. Sheldon said that he want-cur expenses that might possibly If the appeal ed an order either from the Court be thrown away or from the Registrar that securi-succeeded,
Lo Kwong-lain and Lo Kwong-do hin later took the case before the Hongkong Full Court of Appeal in which sat Sir Henry Gallan, Sir Peter Grain, and Mr. Justice Wood, when the first named judges allowed the appeal, finding against the elder brothers, while Mr. Jus fice Wood adhered to his original judgment and expressed the opi- nion that the appeal should be dis- missed. The majority of the court was that the appeal should be al- lowed:
Ly given should be of a form that Mr. Sheldon said It.. would be could be registered against the satisfactory. if the appellants property in dispute. Something in would continue to give accounts. the form of an order prohibiting
Mr Jenkin intimated that his the appellants from dealing with clients were prepared to do so. the property, and further, the pay- Sir Henry Gollan accordingly ment into Court of a sum repre- granted the applleation and made The parties in yesterday's ap-senting the amount of interest to an order for security of costs to plleation were Li Koon-chan and which the appellants in the ap be decided by the Registrar; an Kan Tong-po (appellants) and a peal would pay to the respondents. order that the judgment was not spondents). Mr. I. G. Sheldon,tered into possession, he continu-
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Sir Henry Gollan remarked not exceeding $5,000 on appeal fendants in the late appeal for that he quite agreed with Mr. and their Lordships had to fix the their Lordship's leave to appeal to Sheldon with regard to custa and period for how long it should be the Privy Council. A petition had something in the nature of a pro-found for. I was really to secure been filed in accordance with the hibitory order bat, he said, he costs of the uppeal before the rules. It was a lengthy document could not remember where an or- Privy Council and the appellants which set out the pleadings in der similar to Mr. Sheldon's in-had no objection to the sum of full. The only important pointerest application had been made. $5,000 being fixed. The usual the was the allegation that the mat-He asked Mr. Jenkin what his period was three months.
Sir Henry Gollan notel ter in dispute involved a question views were on the point.. above the value of $5,000. He Mr. Jenkin said that until the point, Mr. Sheldan offering no ob- did not think that would be con appellants went into possessionjection, and also gave leave to ap- tested as the property was un-they, had no right to the rents and ply, further in connexion with the doubtedly or much greater value therefore there was no liability on appeal in the event of its being than that. The only remaining them. "Therefore, judgment on necessary.
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