This case was one arising out of the action of the defendant, who had been engaged by the plaintiffs Ninian Crawford, David Robert Fenton Crawford, John Samuel Cox, John. William Stinford, trading as Lane, Crawford & Ca., as tailor, cutter, and assistant in their establishment in Shanghai, in establishing himself as a tailor in Shanghai, which the plaintifis held he was precluded
signed when entering the employment of from deivg under the engagement which he the plaintiffs.
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