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93.
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amond shown by the two accounts.
The Petition asks the Court to decree payment to the Plaintiff by the Defendant of the two sums.
Amount of $174,918.72, making the
4. When such a petition is filed it becomes the duty of the party against whom a claim is made to appear in Court and deny the claim. In a case in which the party sued is not in the Colony the Law provides remedy. H. W. Tu Duc not being in the Colony that remedy is applied. That remedy is called a Writ of Foreign Attachment.
The proceeding was as follows: Mr. Aark of the Plaintiff Landstein made oath and solemnly declared that H. M. Tu Duc was then justly and truly indebted to the Plaintiff Landstein in the sum of $159,792.19. A copy of this affidavit accompanies this letter marked B.
5. Upon this affidavit taken as proof until disproved that H. M. Tu Duc owed that sum to Landstein, this Court was compelled by the obligation of doing justice to grant a Writ of Foreign Attachment.
A copy of this Writ of Foreign Attachment marked C accompanies this letter.
Under this writ the Sheriff, who is an officer of this Court, seized the ship the "Rangers" and holds it as security so far as it will extend that the Plaintiff Landstein shall have the proceeds of the sale of it in part payment of the sum provisionally proved due from H. M. Tu Duc.
6. The jurisdiction of this Court is based on the fact that the cause of action arose within the jurisdiction of this Court and that H. M. Tu Duc was entitled to moneys in the hands of Wong Yee and Ko Van Tang, then lying in the harbour of this Colony in the possession of the said Wong Yee and Ko Van Tang.
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92.
93.
160
amond shown by the two accounts.
The Petition asks the Court to decree payment to the Plaintiff by the Defendant of the two sums.
Amount of $174,918.72, making the
4. When such a petition is filed it becomes the duty of the party against whom a claim is made to appear in Court and deny the claim. In a case in which the party sued is not in the Colony the Law provides remedy. H. W. Tu Duc not being in the Colony that remedy is applied. That remedy is called a Writ of Foreign Attachment.
The proceeding was as follows: Mr. Aark of the Plaintiff Landstein made oath and solemnly declared that H. M. Tu Duc was then justly and truly indebted to the Plaintiff Landstein in the sum of $159,792.19. A copy of this affidavit accompanies this letter marked B.
5. Upon this affidavit taken as proof until disproved that H. M. Tu Duc owed that sum to Landstein, this Court was compelled by the obligation of doing justice to grant a Writ of Foreign Attachment.
A copy of this Writ of Foreign Attachment marked C accompanies this letter.
Under this writ the Sheriff, who is an officer of this Court, seized the ship the "Rangers" and holds it as security so far as it will extend that the Plaintiff Landstein shall have the proceeds of the sale of it in part payment of the sum provisionally proved due from H. M. Tu Duc.
6. The jurisdiction of this Court is based on the fact that the cause of action arose within the jurisdiction of this Court and that H. M. Tu Duc was entitled to moneys in the hands of Wong Yee and Ko Van Tang, then lying in the harbour of this Colony in the possession of the said Wong Yee and Ko Van Tang.
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