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NO EVICTION ORDER Tenant Given Judgment In
Summary Court
After trying for a year and a half to obtain possession of premises let to defendant, in order that his cousin's family might| reside there, legal action to secure possession was instituted by Chew Leo-sam, of Cedar Street, Shamshuipo, in March, but up to June 20, the expiring date of the notice to quit, defendant was still in possession.
August 24, 1939.
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The action was heard before Mr.and as he had promised to move, hej Justice Lindsell In the Summary had given him time to look for a flat. Court yesterday. Possession, mesnej Chew sald the second floor of profita and costs were claimed from Cedar Street was let to his aunt for Lee Ngol-fung, who claimed protec-$32 per month. The higher rental were included among the passengers tion under the Prevention of Evie was because that nat was larger than who departed from Hongkong yester- N.D.L. liner tions Ordinance.
defendant's. If he WIB
to day evening by the abic Mr. R. M. M. King represented obtain possession, he intended let. Scharnhorst.
The German liner expects to be pinintiff, and Mr. A. Y. Honting it out lls cousin's wife for
in Manila when the European defendant.
the same rental, $20, The ground
reaches Ita climax this was vacant at present.
Altogether, 38 saloon passengern TO - MORROW
Conse- embarked at Hongkong. quently, the Scharnhorst was a full
Now Universal Picturo
floor was let for $45 per month. It situation
week.
Not His Practier
The E. & A. liner Tanda, which
Lee said he rented the premises in July, 1937, nt a monthly rentat of} $12. The rent was later raised to $13 and in January, 1938, to $15. In January this year, the rent was innot arrange for half the ground floor
Mr. Hon asked why Chew could ship. creased to $20, which was the pretent to be occupied by his cousin's wife leaves for Australian ports during the rental. Defendant' occupied the flat and family, and the other half by week-end, is a full ship. with his wife and three children, the defendant and his family. Chew and owing to the Increase of rent, repiled that it was not his practice for Australia on Tuesday, is nlau ex- hed sub-let half the floor to relatives to sublet flats managed by him. pected to be a full ship. In January for $12 month.
312 per
The B. P. Uher Neptuna, leaving
A large number of passengers. Efforts had been made to and al- His Lordship remarked that he
mostly women and children, have ternative accommodation, but he had could not understand why. If Chew's boolted to depart to Manila to-morrow not been
been successful. Some of the cousin had wanted the fat since night by the Empress of Japan. addreses visited were too small or January, 1038. Chew had walted'
There were crowded scenes at the tog dirty, and one particular flat, until now to take out proceedings American Consulute, the Passport which was on the gound floor, and against Lee.
Registration Office
the Part was only a cubicle at the rear of
Health Office to-day us intending} Arewood shop, defendant thought Chew explained that he had been was dangerous for his children, who advised by his uncle not to force the sergers arranged for their depar-
ture. might attempt to climb the stucks tenant out, ainer the latter had pro- of wood and pull it down on them-mised to move un soon as he could! selves.
obtain alternative accommodation.
Læe added that he was employed as a clerk in a Chinese association and was earning $50 per month,
Received Two Lettera
und
Report Denied
Cliew Ping-nam, employed by
and C.N.A.C. deny Both Eurasin Chew to find alternative accommoda-reports published in Chinese news- tion for Lee, sald that in his opinion, papers this afternoon that a plane en the accommodation he had found was route from Hongkong to the interior sufllelent for two adults and two or was fired on by the Japanese after it three children.
erossed the frontier.
Cross-examined by Mr. King, Lee agreed that prior to receiving the
Delivering judgment, his Lordship notice to quit, he had received two remarked that he had held on a fetters from George Chew asking him previous occasion that the onus was to give up possession, the reason being that Chew required the fint for the defendant to establish that he 1 for had made attempts to find ordinary his own use. The first letter was)
accommodation compati- received three months after defend-lternative
ble with that he was asked to give:
ont had moved in. After receiving) the second leiter, defendant told and for much the same rent. He could not see that, in the present Chew that he could not move as he case, the defondant had not dis- could not find accommodation, but charged that onus, offered him an increase in rent of $1.
Lee denied having promised. Chow
Judgment was given for defendant with coats, and his monthly rental;
he would move by July, 1038. He was raisd to $22 per month from admitted he had received
sollcl- June 21.
tors' letter in March claiming two months arrears in rent but, paid up the full amount immediately.
On July 10, after the writ had been Issued, defendant saw Chew and_told him he had been unable to find al-; ternative accommodation. He fur-
ther told him he could not afford to
pay more than $30 a month, Lee ngreed with Mr. King that he had
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William Haskins and Frank Coon
told Chew then that his monthly of Caldwell caught 400-pound income was $65, but explained that sturgeon in the Sankce river after a
It was now $50 as the extra $15 six-hour battle.
which he had got through teaching —
In a school had, since the beginning of this month, been withdrawn na he was no longer connected with the school. The conversation they had was very friendly and Chew offered to assist him in finding a house.
Flats Not Suitable
Some days later, two men employ=| ed by Chew came to defendunt's flat and linnded over two lists contain- ing addresses. Defendant had been to see the flats mentioned but had not
were
found them suitable. Most of them were merely cubicles. In one par- licular fat a notice was pasted on the
children
not staircase that acceptable.
The plaintiff, George Chew, altas King-lim George Chew, said he lived on the first floor of 17, Cedar Street. ile was the son of the actual plaintiff, but together with his uncle, held a power of attorney to manage his father's affairs.
Chew corroborated Lee's evidence out in cross-examination and brought out said be required possession of the floor for his cousin's wife and four children, who were at present living in a cubicle in
In a flot at a rental of $25
Cross-examined by Mr. Hon, Chew
sirable location, Asked why he had
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