Pleadings were ordered Monday by liis Honour Judge Sir Skinner Turner in the case of Messrs. E. D. Sassoon & Ca., Ld., Rakusen & Sons (China) Company, of 42 Whangpoo Road.
Plaintiffs claim is for £36,438. 14.4., with interest at 5 pen cent. per annum from June 1, 1922, in respect of (1) money lent to defendants; (2) money payable by defendants to plaintiffs for money paid by plaintiffs for defendants at their request; (3) commission earned. In the alternative, plaintiffs claimed the sum named as damages for breach of a contract. in writing between plaintiffs and defendants, dated January 17, 1922.
Mr. G. H. Wright appeared for plaintiffs and Mr. Reader Harris for defendants.
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