A case of great importance to the! commercial community was commenced in the Provisional Court, July 10, before Judge Zao and Mr.
Whitamore (Senior Consul deputy), when Messrs. Frazar & Ca. Ltd, brought an action agai Chow Nyau-koa and, Chow Wai-siak, of 30 Mohawk Road, Mr, H. D.
Rodger, with Mr. Li Vee-wong, represented the plaintiffs and Dr. Wilhelm and Mr. T. Y. Lee were for the defendants.
The petition set forth that the defendants were partners in the compradore ship of plaintiffs' firm and the second defendant was the first "defendant's guarantor. By! agreement, the defendants were employed as compradores at Tis, 600} per month and there was a guarantee from the second defendant to the extent of Tls. 30,000. Defen-_ dants introduced about 75 Chinese firms as respectable, sound, and well-established, and reliable as to business integrity, upon which the plaintiffs entered' into sales contracts for piecogoods. All. these firms, however, had failed to carry out their contracts, Plaintiffs averred that the said lers "were not respectable, sound, and well-established business firms, but were fake, bogus, and false firms which the defendants introduced with the intention of taking up the goods onlered if the market arid exchange were favourable when said goods arrived in Shanghai, and of otusing to take up said' ordered goods if the market and exchange were unfavourable and that said con. tracts were made and anid worthless dealers were introduced by the defendants to the plaintiffs for the purpose and with the intention of cheating and defrauding the plain. tiffs by virtue of the defendants' false representations and the plaintiffs? reliance thereon." {When requested to take up the goods, the defendants alleged that the firms either refused to take delivery or had absconded. The plaintiffs claimed Tls. 17,482.17, less Tls. 2,058.15 admitted' as credits due to the defendants.
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