Counsel then dealt at length with and challenged the right of the Council to cut off the light and telephone services of the defendants and argued thatthe proper recourse it, should resort {0 for collection of claims was to the competent courts atid not by direct distraint on the property: amenities enjoyed by residents of the Settlement.
'The third point raised by Mr, Liu was the question of equity. "This court Is supposed to apply the rule of equity, which means equality," he said. "It' means that you must come into' court with clean hands. 1 will examine these two principles in application to the present case. What Wwe mean by equity is equality, When we alls about equality it implies equality in relation of taxes and equality in relation to civic rights. Chinese and foregneis are not H.M. Supreme Court laun for Damages (MRS, A. LOCA v. AUSS J, 0. CUBBAN.
Judge P. Grant Jones (ro pay $200 damages and costs)
May 13.
Judgment in favour of Mrs. Annette Loca_was given yesterday by Judge Grant-Jones in HM. Supreme Court against Miss J. D. Cuban. The plaintiff, who is an Italian, claimed $500'as damages caused by the defendant when she detained her typewriter for non-payment of rental for her flat at 1000 Vu Yuen Road. The defendant, when questioned by the Judge. stated that she had been made to understand by detectives of the Western Shanghai Area Special Police Force that she could detain the plaintiffs belongings for non-
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