Supreme Court last Friday in the action brought by Mr. H. Fittkau, architect, of _Szechuen Road, against J. N. Hsu (trading as the Ti Shan Trading Ca., 36 Nanking Road). Plaintiff sought to recover Tls. 1,723 commission in connexion with the preparation of plans for a tannery in Chapei.
Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared for plaintiff and Mr. L. Kentwell for defendant.
His Lordship, in giving judgement, reviewed the circumstances of the case, which were that plaintiff took over from another architect, Mr. Zerle, the architect tural duties in connexion with the building, at 3 per cent. commission on a contract price of Tls. 34,000. The building was started in September Jast, but while the foundations were being dug, objection was made by the neighbours on the ground that water issuing from the tannery would poison the surrounding creeks. The Chinese authorities stopped the, work, but Jatar scheme of filtering the waste was placed before the auth and, after Mr. Hsu paid an official of the Chinese Board of Works $1,000 as a bribe, a licence was granted.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.