Judgment was given in the United Stutes Court for China last Friday, by Hig Honour Judge Purdy, for the defendant company, in. the. suit, which was brought by Hsu, 'Tsing-ea. Wang Se-chun, Chang' Chung feng, Toh Sihchow, Chen Ngohteng, Chen Techia and Loh Sih-chai, ce-pariners working under the style of the Van. Ziang Kung Kee Ca. duets Corp, for Mex. $25,000, Counsel for the defence, Mr. R. T. Bryan, J., was instructed by the court to pare general findings on the facts indicated by His Honour in sum-up the case, following which Judgment would be given for the defendants, Mr. 8,.-A. Moss appeared for the plaintits, Presenting the summary of the legal contest which has involved several days of testimony and argument, Judge Purdy said "The ease hasbeen a long one, well argued by the counsel for' both sides and great mass of testimony has been presented for consider of the court, woom to be issue is simply that the plaintitt and his partners are demanding the return of $25,000 with interest: amounting to $1,000 and defendant defends on the ground that he does not owe the plaintiff any money, and, if anything, that plaintiff is still indebted to defendant."
His Honour continued drawing up outline of the action along the following lines, That a contract had been entered into on February 19, 1925 between plainti and defendant according to which the plaintiff was to perform certain duties in the district of Ningpo; Chekiang province, As a guarantee $25,000 was put up by company. At the time of this contract there was a man in Ningpo named Chu or Van Ziang who because of some interest he had in the terms of the contract came to Shanghai and affixed his chop to the contract, thereafter, being: in the Tobacco Products Corporation's estimation the manager of the company with whom sab-sequent dealings would be transact ed. At that time, as proven in the light of subsequent events, Mr. Loh Sib-how. an employee of the Tobacco Products Corp., was inter-ted in the Van Ziang Kung Kee Ca, to a large extent, which he apparently did not wish to reveal, and did not until two years afterwards,
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