The plaintiff in the case asks for cancellation of certain documents, chief among them being a marriage contract, which he declares were obtained from him under duress. His story is that while engaged at Nanking University, two ruffians, hired by Miss Dun, went to his fwoom and abducted him. He was brought to Shanghai and taken to 2 house in Mandalay Road, being kept there for four days until Miss Dun had "extorted" his signature to the documents which he now seeks to have cancelled. He eventually signed, and was release ed. The documents were: a volunlary marriage contract, provision for damage in the event of breach of promise, and a promissory note for $2,000. The marriage contract was drawn up in the following terms "Song Ching-koh and Tseng Jui-chi have offered their hands to each other in cultured wedlock and will not be enslaved by the harmful customs of the old society, They will in perpetuity preserve their exclusive and undivided affection one towards the other, and under no pretext will the married life of the contracting parties be affected by the admission of
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