Court
et me
and landing charges. I lost my case and I " appealed it to the tanghong Supreme. " The Consul stopped Kemptner's suit against thecause it rected on the evidence of frand which ""I adduced, just "my suit against him) until my appeal should The Consul made my Aggent
"lee decided
This hill.
just in the
Ranch Mourner aud
appeal case
did
" enter into bonds for my appearance to Hemptus "euit, as well as give Recurity for the payment of it.
In this appeal.
I employed M. "Kingsmill. I lost the appeal and I paid him I paid Hemptner the full amount " of his claime and so settled the matter. Whilst "the appeal was
pending I was served with a writ at the Rest of Kemptner by Mr Deven the amount clanned being $10,000. What this was for I never knuevos.
Kemptucis clann
the
aganich
instituted the action.
in the
It was not for -auict me, fuit, because amount was different; second, because Hempatuces claim stood puspended Consular Court, and, thirdly, because Rumptuer "when I paid linn, denied he had ever
Had he done so, he "certainly would have been made responibile " for the Costs. I took no notice of the writ. It "" was not endorsed and I considered it beneath notice. It is for alleged proceedings " this writ that Mr. Kurgemill now kies me. "I never authorised proceedings.
I never
arr
" retained him, and, I submit, that a Barrister
Cannot que
for his fees. "
I submitted
ces endence a
large file of papers, and, had there been
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examined the ments of the case would have heen exced yone
into - but they suere rejected.
on the dictume
and the decision based entirely that " it could not be possible that a
"Cutteman of M. Kingsmill's standing world.
"conduct a case without instructions
Kemptner's lawyer might have been called into Court and the Records of the Regjistron examined, but Mr. Kingsmillo
enough.
lls word was decured
Leaving the affixed documents
a
corroborative or otherwise
to speak for themselves of the above recital. pray excuse me,
LX.
e for
few of the salient points. When
of property
indicating I determined to let the Appeal drop and proceed to Ceurope, I had about $72.000 morte
mincumbered within the juridiction of the Hongkong beurt. to any judgment against, Foreign Attachment.
on litigation
Rum. ?
This property
was amenable
me under a Writ of
Would any.
man in his
senses leave such an amount of property dependent which only involved one tenth of the Lurely this fact tends to Corroborate my statement that I considued the cases auspended untel my return.
I attempted,
in
conducting the cases to go through the Correspondence which had taken place between, myself and Mr. Kingsmill, but I was so much interrupted and so repeatedly deured to get into the witness box that I had not the opportunity of dissecting the Correspondence I intended
the manner
I exhibited my full file of papers
and I respectfully submit that Mr Whyte shouts have rifted all the Warrantabile evidence to the leottom, and not have selected to believe one munis
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