The Archive · 1932

Kiangsu High Court

Bank Official Sued Chen, deputy nor of the' Central "Bani of ina "and chairman of the ruttee appointed to study the abel Hon of the tach, who fs' one of the Frost trusted friends. of Sr. T. Vy Hoong, was. ordered. by the' Second Branch of the Kiangst High Court Aug. Oto. pay. Miss Yen oh-fan the sum of $50,000, damages Alleged to have een sustained "by iuintit as a result of defendants The amount of the judgment was each. of promise. to. marry her.

exactly one hair of what' Miss Yen Piainiit, who is the daughter of a former high ofsiat in Poking and the sister of Mr. Yen Quo-year former Premier of the Peking Government, alleged. that she became engaged to defendant some 15 years store. the inter went of Ohio, At inthe Universi

ment, plaintiff alleged, was hot! as wealthy as Ko is at pres:

Lime, paid his expenses, however, ght, dhe having money othe

and fell in love with another girl, America, defendant mot hom he subsequently married, De-Fendant, upon his return. to Ching several years later, informed Dlaintiit'of fis; marcinge and offered five her freedom: but. she refused find declined to recognise the mar-Tiage, saying that she was the AMlanced wife of defendant Blaine tialioged that she had not married anit that she. would. marry into no ther family other than that of dofendant.

"Defendant alleged that, in his absence, plainti became engag fon Mr. Fu, a relative of a former Taoyin of Shanghat and. was sab-tly. mar him, Hearing he naturally concluded that id been given his freedom s0 vied another Iad; she, was!

any time engaged, much less ied, to Mr, In, said that her FiNived een tht the, wan vancing her knowledge, for her in years, arranged, betrothment without to Mr. Fu but, as, soon as. she heard of the matter, she immediate. ly terminated the arrangement, with the consent of the Fu family, to whom the circumstances of the ease were explained, the ese before the! Special District Court, iven in defendant's the result that given Judgment as: stated,

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