Shanghai Municipal Council v. Cooper.
This was a claim in the name of W. E. Leveson, Secretary of the Municipal Council for the Community of Shanghai, against H. Cooper. The plaintiff's claim was in regard to work done, services rendered and goods supplied to the defendant from April 12 to April 20 in connexion with the Garden City fete, the particulars being:—April 15 and 16, hire of the Public Band, Tls. 512; April 15 to 18, extra insurance on the Town Hall, Tis, 299.72; April 12 to 20, electricity consumed for temporary lighting and heating, Tls. 267,90; making a total of Tis.
1,102.02, Mr. E. S. Moberly Bell appeared for the plaintiffs, while Mr. J. C. E. Douglas appeared for the defendant, Mr. Bell said that this was a claim for over Tls. 1,100, for work for which the defendant was responsible in connexion with the Garden City fete. He understood that it was not proposed to contest the claim, but that the defendant had a counter-claim or set-off for a sum about the same or exceeding the claim. Of course strictly speaking, if it was a counter-claim he could insist on the defendant going to the Court of Consuls, but he had agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the Court. He therefore asked that the defendant be ordered to file his counter-claim.
His Lordship made the order.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.