Thy bona fides of a claim for insurance on a Chinese silk filature were in dispute at H. M. Supreme Court on Wednesday, when the case of Tang Yih-shi (carrying un business as the Dah Foong Silk Filature) v. the British Dominions General Insurance Ca., Ld., came up for hearing before "his Honour Judge Skinner Turner.
Plaintiff claimed Tls. 2,567.39, the! proportion due from defendants of the amount found to be the loss or damage suffered by plaintiff and occasioned by fire at his silk _filature at No, 265 Shang Yee Chaio Road, Shanghai, on October 2 last, this amount pee awarded by the arbitrators, E. M. Ross statement of defence, defendants related the cireumstances in which plaintiff's claim for Tls, 47,947.51 loss alleged to have been sustained by fire was red for arbitration to Mes: E. M. Ross and H. W. Dald: nominated by plaintiff and defendants respectively pursuant to condition 18 of the policy. In their award, dated February 17, the arbitrators determined the losses sustained to be as follows:
Cocoons, silk, silk waste: 10,265; furniture, fixture and fittings, Tls. 600; employees' clothing lost or damaged by fire, Tls. 750.
Defendants admited that Ts. 2,559.05 would be the proportion of this award payable by defendants. The statement continued
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