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I sued Kemptuer in the Brish Concular " baut aut Yokohama for the recovery of the "dum. I had paid him and he sued me for and landing charges. I lost case and I appealed it to the Houghing Lupreme
The Consul stopped. "Kemptuers kuit against me (because it
on the evidence of frand which I in the fame manner as did "my suit aganist him) intel my appeal
"rested
Court.
"adduced just
" should be decided
The Conseil made my
"Agunt enter into bonds for my apperance "to Remptners suit as well as
"the payment of it.
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security for
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In this appeal.
Case
"I employed M. Hingamill. Plast the appeal and I paid hive his Bill. I paid "Kemptuer the full amount of his claim
" and so settled the matter".
"While the appeal was pending I
" was served with a writ at the suit of " Kemptuer by Mr Owen, the amount claimed beeing $10.000 · For I never knew.
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What this was
was not
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· first, because different, second because
Kemptuers claim upon me, the amount was
" Hemptuers claim stood suspended in the
Consular
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"Comentar Court, and, thirdly, because Kemptorer
when I paid him denied that he had ever instituted the action. Had he done po be certainly
would have been made responsible " for the costs.
I took no notice of the writ.
was not endorsed and I considered it beneath.
It is for alleged procudings
Motive.
" on this writ that Mr. Kingsmill now pues never retained him. I never
" me.
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"authored proccedings; and, I submit that " a Barrister cannot eue for his fees.
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I submitted as evidence a
lange file of papers, and had these been examined. the merits of the case would have been gone into, but they were rejected and the division based entirely
on the supposition that it could " not be possible that a humblemaw of M= " Kingsmill's standing would conduct a case " Without instructions
"
Kemptours lawyer might have been called into bauit, and the Records of the Registrar examined, but M thingsmill's word was deemned enough
to
Leaving the affixed documents
speak for themselves as corroborative or otherwise of the above recital, pray excuse me
for indicating a few of the palcint paints.
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When I determined to let the appeal drop and proceed to Ceurope I had about $78.000 worth of property unincumbered sitting the jurisdiction of the Exongkong Court. This property was amenable to any judgement against Hunder
me
a writ of foreign Attachment. Wouldany man in his sences leave such an Amount of property dependent on litigation which only involved tt & tenth of the sun ? Surely
return.
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this fact tends to corroborate my
my statement, theat I considered. the cases puspended until my
I attempted in conducting the cases to go through the Correspondence. which had taken place lecturer myself and M. Kingsmill but I
lent I was so much interrupted and so repeatedly deured to get into the rintuers box that I had not the opportunity of dissecting the correspondence
correspondence in the manner I intended
I exhibited my feell file of papers and I respectfully submit that "M=" Whyte should have shifted all the warrantable evidence to the bottom and not have selected to believe one man's bath and disbelieve
another man's.
rain, it was set.
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