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MARCH· BAXTER BARRYMORE
READ GLOR
JUNE LANG. GREGORY RATOFF
WARNER OLAND
In
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 6, 1997.
ABRUPT END TO FAMILY
ESTATE DISPUTE
OFFER BY PLAINTIFF ACCEPTED BY OTHER MEMBERS
The Shum family dispute, involv-
when
was
The Chief Justice congratulated
FAMILY RULES
The case commenced before the
ing the disposition of some $425,000, the parties on coming to an agree came to an abrupt conclusion bement, instead of "washing their fore the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl domestic linen" in Court. MacGregor, this morning, as Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., about to examine Shum.Yat-chuen to prove the trust, Mr. Eldon Pot-Chief Justice, yesterday, when Shum Shiu-po, alias Shum Pak-to,alian plaintiff, Shum To claimed a . (a) declaration ter, K. C., on behalf of made an offer that the Ancestral that the trusts declared by the Family Fund be shared among the three Rules of the Shum Wing Fat Tong branches of the family, in the ratio of four shares to the fourth branch, four shares to the fifth branch, and two shares to the third branch.
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dated between April 2 and May 1, 1897, were void as offending the rules against perpetuities, and (b) a declara-. tion of the trusts upon which the pro- perty heretofore held in trust under the said Family Rules should be held. including There were $7 defendants, Mr. John Hennessey Seth, trustee, all legally represented.
In making the offer, Mr. Potter stated that undoubtedly there was a trust of some kind, which plaintiff
Mr. Eldon Potter, K. C. and Mr. H. admitted started in 1897, the scheme C. Macnamara, instructed by Mr. H. K. of division then being three shares Woo, of Messrs. Woo-and Woo, appear- to the Ancestral Fund, one share ed for the plaintiff.
Mr. D. J. N. Anderson, instructed by to the third branch, three shares to Mr. F. E. Nash, of Messrs. F. E. Nash the fourth branch, and three shares and Co., appeared for the first defen- to the fifth branch. To bring this dant, John Hennessey Seth, trustee.
Mr. K. G. Sheldon, K. C. instructed case to an end his client had, offer- ed to have the Ancestral Fund shar-by Mr. D. H. Blake, of Messrs. Wilkin- son and Grist, appeared on behalf of ed equally among the three bran- Shum To-shing, alias Shum Yat-chuen,
and other defendants. ches of the Family.
Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada, jun., in- structed by Mr. D. H: Blake, appeared COURT ADJOURNS
for Shum Tai-shing alias Shum Lai At the request of Mr. Sheldon, nam, Shum Chu-shing, Shum Yuen-po, the Court adjourned for 15 minutes, Shum Shik-po, Shum Ying-po, Shum to enable him to consult his clients. Yung-po, Shum Cheuk-po, Shum Chun-
fong and Shum Ah-tsoi, defendants. On resumption, Mr. Sheldon told
Mr. George She, instructed by Mr. the Court that the defendants whom D. H. Blake, appeared for Shum Yui- he represented agreed to the offer.po, Shum Wui-po, Shum Hing-po and
of Shum Kai-fong, (infants) defendants. Mr. Leo D'Almada, on behalf
ten of the defendants, also agreed.
That the estate be shared in the ratio of four shares to the fourth branch, four shares to the fifth
RARE FATALITY
branch and two shares to the third Man Dies After Collision branch;
That the parties have liberty to apply for an enquiry by the Re- gistrar as to which persons of the respective family branches the re- spective shares be paid; and
With Fugitive
Lau Tak, 22, was fined $30, or six weeks, by Mr. K. Keep at the Central Magistracy, when he plead- ed guilty to having wine in his pos That the costs of the action to session on which duty had not been stand as agreed' between the two paid.
“CHARLIE CHAN AT THE CIRCUS" parties, were the orders made.
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Revenue Officer Stevens said that that defendant, in attempting to down an evade arrest, knocked elderly pedestrian, Woo Hop-shu, who sustained a fractured skull in the fall and died later.
KNOCKED DOWN A LAMP POST
Mr. Potts Fined: Driving On Battery Path
Mr. J. H. Potts, of Messrs. Ben- jamin and Potts, was this morning find $25 at the Central Magistracy when he pleaded guilty to driving car No. 4117 on Battery Path with- out a permit from the Traffic De partment, at 1.45 am, on March 23. Traffic-Inspector Saunders asked that a serious view be taken. It was well-known that the path was closed to vehicles and there was a large signboard at the bottom to that effect. Defendant knocked down a lamp post half way along. the path.
W. Stoker, of No. 22, Stubbs Road, was fined $5 this morning by Mr. K. Keen when he pleaded guilty to disobeying the traffic signal at the Star Ferry Wharf on March 19.
In a fall into the hold of a Green Island Cement Co. lighter, Chan Fook-yee, a workman, fractured his left leg and was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital.
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