Alleged Forcible Seizure by General Ho Fen-lin: A Chinese Government Puzzle A_ complicated legal. problem arising out of the war in Shanghai was the subject of an interesting ruling by his Honour Judge Sit Skinner Turner in H, BIN. Supreme Court on Tuesday. The matter is dispute concerning a quantity of copper piping valued at Tls. 40,000, plaintiffs being the Kiangnan Dock Engineering Ca. and the defendants the General Forge Products Co.-of China, of 30 Lincheng Road, Yangtszepoo; and the claim was: (1) for an injunction to restrain the defendants, their officers, contractors, Workmen or agents from removing, disposing of or otherwise of the property of consisting of a quantity of copper piping valued wt Tls. 40,000 and now lying on the defendants' premises at Yangtszepoo; (2) the Foturn of these goods to plaintiffs, or their value, together with damages for their detention; and (3) alternatively, damages for the conversion of the goods by the): defendants to their own use.
Mr. T. R. Jones appeared for plaintiffs, Mr. R. E. 8, Gregson for defendants, and Mr, Tycho Wing. for a third party who lays claim to the material and entered an interpleader.
The question of jurisdiction having been argued at length in Chambers, his Honour on Tuesday gave is Yuling on the point.
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