Van Orien Yuen v, A-Yor.
Plaintiff sued to recover $7, balance of account on a sale of ducks. Since the transaction, defendant has signed articles on board H.BM.'s gunboat Swinger, as @ fireman, hence his being sued in this Court.—It appeared that plaintiff had 150 dead ducks for sale, and entrusted them to defendant to di Lend of. He was at the time living with a nond in Hongkew, and the ducks were taken to his house. Defendant sold a number of the ducks, and although plaintiff gave $l and it ducks for a week's work, he retained $7 of the money he received for them, on the plea that plaintiff had not paid him anything for storage at his friend's house, and that what he had received wae not sul: ficient remuneration.
His Hoxour said he thought defendant had been paid enough, and was liable to the plaintiff in the amount claimed. It would, however, first be necessary to know if he had signed articles and was regularly entered on the articles of the Swinger, and in order to ascertain if that were s0, his Honour would himself write to the captain to enquire.
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