(instalment payments reduced) 1 Shanghai, Feb, 1f An order for a reduction of monthly instalments from $10 to $5 and for judgment debtor to pay immediately into court $20 was made by Judge P. Grant Jones in H.M, Supreme Court, yesterday in a judgment summons brought by Bachan Singh against, Saden Singh, a Sikh watchman who was $10 in arrears in his instal 'The judgment debtor told the court that his salary was $97 a month and said he was receiving a monthly pension of nine rupees, Several years ago, he said, he obtained judgment in the' Chinese' court against a Chinese for $640 and had obtained sealing orders against the man's property jand had applied to the court for its disposal, but had heard nothing further about the matter.
Asked by his Lordship how much the had Jent the Chinese he replied [$040 or the amount of the judgment, which prompted His Lordship to sug-Jgest that he was lying.
The debtor went on to say that the Chinese was introduced to him by the [judgment creditor to whom he offered {o transfer his claim in the Chinese court, but who when questioned His Lordship on the matter declined the offer and observed that this was, purely the business of the judgment debtor and no concern of his, He suggested that the debtor was getting salary of $120 which the debtor vigorously denied, declaring that he ]was ready to be gent to prison if he was lying, "He offered to pay the creditor $20 on account, explaining that he had got the money with great dimeulty, having to pawn something to raise half the amount, Divorce Case
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