The Archive · 1925

A Mother Refused Custody of Child

Dispute over Parentage of Eurn: Court Decides for Spanish Father Mr. Vizenzinovich and Magistrate Sung at the Mixed Court on Thursday heard an application for a stay Alleged faulty' heating and sanity ary arrangements in the construction of the Carlton Cafe were the subject vf an action by the Shanghai Building Ca. Federal, Inc., against the Asia Engineering Corp., heard by Judge Purdy at the U.S. Court on Thursday. The petition stated that machinery and pipes installed by defendants failed to come up to the guarantee, which stated that a temperature of 40 degrees Fal Thigher than the outside re-should be maintained in the of execution in the suit brought by) rooms and 30 degrees in Ildefonso Rodriguez against a excess should be kept in the ball-Chinese woman, Kao' Ah-nee, "for room. and corridors, ete plaintiffs the custody of a little boy. for $1,500 for excess coal used The case was one in which the immediately after-the opening. Court found in favour of the the second cause of. action me Spanish subject, who claims for Tls. 552, alleged to be father of the child due for materials used in the con-wut was the mother; struction of three that he had acknowledged the child having supplied them to the Asi as his own from birth and had hid Engineering Corporation—and third-it duly baptized in a local chu rex ly, G. $150, due on a credit memo. last October; and that the defendant Mr. H. 8. Snyder appeared for left him during the same month, plaintiffs and Mr. F, J. Schuhl for taking the child away with her and defendants. failing to return it to the plaintiff, Mr. Edward Bell, manager of the who asked for exclusive and per-company, gave evidence in support manent custody of the child. of his plaintiffs claim.

The defence alleged that defendant Cross-examined by Mr. Schuh! was legally married and that the yess said the theatre and stores child was born in wedlock and not not been completed upon the of the plaintiff, Defendant's hus-opening of the ball-room on Decem-and said that he had been married her 29,1922. to defendant for 10 years and that res att done either: Hie ta The stained glass dome ither. He sold second. judgment [the child was his.

Court, in' its judgment, gave custody of 't! child plaintiff and orderou plaintiff to pay to defendant $500. hand lumber for the construction of the cesspools at Tls. 40 per 1,000 feet, some 6,000 ft, When Mr. Schuhl read from notes Pex Sua, who was recently sentenced fo two years imprisonment charged with being concerned with others in the uttering of a number of U.S. currency notes appeared fon Tuesday at the Mixed Court for retrial. Mr. Fishman appeared for the defendant. The Court ordered that in view of the fact that all the evidence against the accused was circumstantial, accused should. be permitted to return to Poland in the event of his obtaining from hi friends a through ticket to some European port. The Assessor (Mr. Jacobs) said that the Court could hot cancel the sentence, but tha a Fatwune to register for last year Jand the current year led to the ap. pearance of David Araki before oversight. paper man he was very busy, and suggested that the Consulate rities ought to subjects as to register leave it to an advertisement in the newspaper, which some peop!

The Magistrate agree, and after pointing out the legal importance of registration, fined defendant $8.

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