A 20<days time limit was. giver by Judge M. D. Bardy, in the U.S. Gourt for China on March 18 fo the Great. American Insurance Go. and" the Merchants Fire Assurance Corporation of Now presentative. This recognition.by the Executive Department would seem to satisfy the requirements of the law, but, if this is not enough, we have been advised by a telegram from the Secretary of State that the Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the National Government of China has. been officially received by this government, so that the recognition must, therefore, be reversed. The fendants for the sum of £393.16.2 contention we are unable to agree. The plea in abatement was sustain-2 at the threshold and the de fendant was never called upon to answer to the merits. The judgment will, therefore, be reversed and the cause remanded for further Froveedings. Inasmuch as the cause of reversal arose since the trial in the court below, the reversal will without costs to either party.
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