The Archive · 1920

Banks and Import Business

Custom of the Trade Questioned

A question which may prove of some importance to banks and importers was raised by his Honour Judge Skinner Turner in connexion with a motion which came before him in H. M. Supreme Court on Mond The motion was. that the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation ahd the Banque de l'Indo-whine are respectively secured creditors as regards certain goods (or the proceeds of the sale thereof) stored in the godown of Arthur Reeves Burtenshaw, deceased, at the date of his death.

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