Judgement Against Mr. J. A. Hayes In H. M. Supreme Court on Wednesday his Honour Judge Skinner -|Turner gave judgement in the case of a disputed right to certain land' claimed by Mr. A. Hayes in satisfaction of a Mixed Court judgement arising out of the 1920 September Settlement.
Mr, H. Wilkinson appeared' for plaintiffs(two Chinese who claim part of the land), Mr. H. Lipson Ward for Messrs. Davies & Brooke (registered owners of the land og. trustees), and Mr. D. McNeill for Mr. Hayes.
His Lordship said:—After the March Settlement of 1920, J. A. Hayes, a member of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, had large transactions in shares with one Koh Yue-chow. At the time of the June Settlement, arrangements had to be made whereby Koh's account could be carried over to the September settlement. Then the position was too bad: Koh was pressed for payment, failed to pay, and ultimately had judgement signed. against him at the suit of Hayes for about four lakhs of taels. Koh in the meantime had bolted. There is no doubt that up to the June settlement at all events, and even afterwards, Hayes regarded Koh as. a responsible person able to pay his losses. Hayes not only got a judgement? against him for the money, but also execution against certain properties alleged to be his, amongst them the land, the subject
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