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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1935.

ARMS HIDDEN

IN JUNK

FATHER AND SONS

CHARGED

THE SANG LEE FIRM DISPUTE

JUDGMENT GIVEN IN TEST CASE

As the result of the discovery of Although judgment, which had

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London, May 28. Exchequer returns for the cur a Mauser pistol, 94 rounds of am- been reserved, was given by Mr. munition and four ammunition Justice Lindsell, Puiane Judge, in rent financial year up to May 25 clips in a spocially-constructed the Sang Lee partnership lasus at show that the total revenue, ex- self-balancing items, chest, which had been ingeniously Supreme Court this morning, this cluding Hidden on board a fishing junk, a litigation over, a sum of $284.95. amounts to £87,458,829, s junk master and his two sons were which has involved the services ofpared with £84,734,575 at the

three counsel, may not be ended, corresponding date last year. arrested early this morning,

Expenditure, owing mainly to The sons, Sin Kun-shing, aged for a stay of execution has been

increased cost of supply services, 25, Sin Yiu-fu, aged 27, and their granted pending notice of appeal.

Described as a test case, the has been heavier than the father, Sin Yeung, aged 47, were brought before Mr. Wynne-Jones chuim was brought by Lee Yan-wo, responding period of last year. at the Kowloon Magistracy this of No. 278. Hennessy Road, The relative totals of expenditure, morning, charged with possession against the Government contrac-excluding self-balancing items. £105.280,261, па against of the arms without a licence on torn, Sang Lee & Co., of Nos. 2 and are board junk No. 6560 at Shaukhwan 8 Tin Lok Lone, who were alleged £98,711,049,-British Wireless. Harbour. First defendant picad-to be partners of the actual debtors, ed gulity and was sentenced to 12 Sang Lee, of Thompson Road, now months' hard labour. The song in liquidation. denials were accepted by the pro- secution and they were according ly discharged.

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Ne, 283 Queen's Road West, situate on Inland Lot No. 3040, was auction- Mr. H. G. Sheldon, R.C., was ¦ ed by E, V. M, R. de Sousa, by order Instructed by Mr. J. T. Prior, of of the mortgagee, at the China Wilkinson & Grist, for plaintiff Auction Room yesterday afternoon. Mr. Eldon Potter, R.C., was in- Chol Leong purchased the premises structed by Mr. H. L. Dennys of for $12,500. The bidding commenced | Whant appeared for the prosecu-

tion and stated that the pistol was Dennys & Co., for the No, 8. Tin $12,066, found. in a specially-constructed Lok Lane firm; and Mr. D. McNeill, box and in the bottoni was found instructed by Mr. D. L. Strellett, the ammunition. The box had, of Geo. K. Hall Bratton & Co. ap been fitted into a cavity in the Peared for the No. 2, Tin Lok Lane

Örm. doorway of the sleeping compart- ment at the stern of the boat. The Giving judgment, his Lordship me" concern, stated that if it door actually, closed on the post- said, in part: In 1928 the old firm ment that the No. 1 and 2 Branchea tion where the box was concealed. of Sang Lee & Company, which had

It was only by luck that the box been very well known in Hongkong never have been allowed to take was discovered. The police board. for many years, was dissolved and over without formalities, as he did. of the vessel about 9 o'clock this its business and goodwill, were the completion of C's contract in

the old partners

connection with the site, of the new morning and after a two-hour assigned by

to certain persona who had Civil Hospital. search the pistol and ammunition been connected with the firm It is C's venture into the new were brought to light. At the but were not partners therein, Civil Hospital site that has led to time of the discovery the Arst de-

and whom I will call A. Bthe present action. C fondant and his wife were sleep and C. Instead of carrying on the that venture in October Inst und

failed in Prices: ing in the compartment, and the business as a single entity in ac- closed down, and the plaintiff in two sons were in a compartmentcordance with their original inten- this action is one of C's creditors in the middle of the bout.

tion these three persons spilt up who now seeks to recover from A Some of the cartridges was into three separate concerns, call and B what was owed him by C. rather old and the lead had ing themselves Sang Lee & Com- already sunk into the shell. The pans (the afgn of the old firm), vessel of the 1,400-picula Sang Lee No. 1 Branch and Sang I have to decide whether A and capacity type and had a permit Lee No. 2 Branch respectively, 3, or either of them, have so held from the Harbour Master to carry | Each concern thus retained na partout C, or knowingly suffered a certain quantity of arms.

of its sign the two name-characters to hold himself out, to be part and Addressing Sub-Inspector Whant, (Sang Lee) of the original sigh, parcel of their own business as to the Magistrate said: “You are to Each raised separate capital, the render themselves or either of them be congratulated,” and when told branches earlier than Sang Lee & Bable to pay bla debts. As me- that a Chinese detective was Co., and issued separate partnership | gards B, this question is already responsible for the actual dis-certificates. There were some com- answered by my finding as a fact covery of the arms he said. "Luinon partners of Sang Lee & Com- that his branch was itself Wing, you did very well indeed."

pany and of the No. 1 Branch but separate and distinct entity. I' none of these were partners in the cannot see how that branch, even No. 2 Branch.

if its existence was known to the plaintiff firm during the material time, which I doubt, and whether it existed as a separate entity or For ordinary trading purposes not, could be deemed to have held (purchase of goods, etc.) cach con-out the No. 2 Branch, or suffered corn had its own separate chop that branch to hold itself out, as bearing its own name, but the prin- a part of its business or to have cipal chop of the old Sang Lee firm therely induced anyone to give was retained for use in common by credit to the No. 2 Branch. each of the three in the execution There must therefore be judg of every building and other similar ment with costs, including costs of Riksdag, the Prime Minister. Mr. contract and in the acknowledg- counsel, for Sang Lee & Company ment of payments received. For of No. 8, Tin Lok Lane, Le. Sang Ramsay MacDonald, has sent the same years C, who was known to Lee No. 1 Branch. following telegram to the Swedish the Treasury, collected therefrom, The position of A is, however, Prime Minister:-"It gives me and signed for and acknowledged somewhat different in that he has great pleasure 10 convey to you, by means of the common chop, carried on business since 1928 in the name of His Majesty's Gov- every payment made by the Gov- under the same sign as the old- ernment of the United Kingdom, ernment in respect. of work done Sang Lee and appears to have our very hearty congratulations to by any one of the three concerns, combined with B and C in a course the Swedish Parliament, which for and paid over the proceeds to the of conduct which led the Hongkong 600 years has

rendered such concern which had earned them; Government at any rate to belleve valuable service to the cause of and later on the same practice was that his wis no new concern and constitutional liberty." British followed by B. The Treasury that the No. 1 and No. 2 branelies Wireless.

officials thus had no notice of the were both parts of its organisation. splitting up of the old firm and no 'find that the defendants' ease The lecture by Mr. D. K. Paul, e-doubt continued to regard Sang fails and give judgment for the titled "Genius, Fame and Fortune" Lee & Company as still one entity. plaintiff against Sang Lee & Vis-a-vis the P. W. D. the poal- Company of No. 2, Tin Lok Lane postponed from May will be given

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