An Important Judgment by Sir Edmund Hornby: Some_
Interesting Correspondence The following article gives extracts from a famous judgment delivered by Sir Edmund on June 17,1874, in the ease of the Shanghai Race Club v. the Shanghai Cricket Club.
The judgment is considered to be one of the most important ever rendered in Shanghai and the writer is indebted ud. the 1 Mr. H. Lil. Read for a copy..ilr.
Wain wright appeared for the plaints and Mr. W. V. Drummond a riding and training course and
Cricket Club applied to the Race Course for permission to erect mat shed on their ground. This iwas granted on certain terms, and in 1865"permission was'also given te erect. in liew of the mat shed, a wooden pavilion, on condition that it should be taken down, if required lby the Race Club, at the race time."
Here follows the history of the represented the defendants.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.