The case brought by Zung Yen-ling, doing business under the name of the Vu Yutshing Incandescent Lamp Ca., against Lam, Glines Ca., was dismissed in the U.S. Court for China last Friday by Judge Purdy, and judgment given in fav our of the defendant. Dr.
Mer appeared on behalf the plaintiff Mr. H. D. Rodger for the defendant. The sum involved was Tis, 16,226.66 alleged. by plaintiff to have' been damaged for non delivery of "Existo" lamps, under an alleged contract, As the ease hinged on whether or not a contract had been in existence, no attempt was made to prove] damages by the counsel for the plaintiff until the question of the contract was decided. In dismissing the case, Judge Purdy said that he not believe the plaintiff had signed and returned the duplicate contract, and that circumstances. showed that plaintiff had waited until samples of the lamps that dete its were to supply from Germany had actually arrived in July, 1926, No claim had been made under the alleged contract for nine months His Honour pointed out. Consequently, he did not believe a contract existed, and the case was dismissed with costs,
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