FAN TAN CLUB.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17773, 8 October 1927, Page 6

FAN TAN CLUB.

DEAD PARTNER'S ESTATE

By :>h Pros* A ssor iaUon. AUCKLAND, October 7. Ur Justice .'.-t ringer gave is reserved division in the adieu regarding the d'Slate <>( dearigo dlire. -t Clones,- reel : .'limit, in '.'.inch the principal creditor is ' how King, <1 Vi e.'hii'd:.:u. a partner ol : deceased in carrying o:i a Ciub for raying i'n-tan. w|TcT is .ii- illegal game. King claimed C 533 Ms Gd as iim share of the profits. There were also chums h.v four other creditors. ■!• >• a-’ orM gn.a.m, tile healing that ' re ivas !j5'K) owing to Emnpeans for 'vis slipp'd d. ! *■ w® d'-iuird !i v cor Os-el for flic Public 'Trustee that the illegality of a •'•mug in.:-.less put the claimant.':, "hums cut of Court. ills Kulao gar.’ judgment for all the okjint'fi'.s, bid. made it clear that there ’•a.; no surg -t ini of improper action by d'.: Public Tru-fer in bringing the uiafMr fo CmrL. Finding flic assets i nsiiif icirn t to meet. Eabilil ies. lie ‘■'■'■red to -administer the estate as ;n Ginkrnptey. If action' had to be deirri’rnod. ns in an action between a ••(editor (I i'll do coast'd to receive moneys duo. the Trusters old'cticn would, lie Ihorcrht, he fata' upon (lie ground ‘.lint, to permit sm h mi action would 1m cTitraiy to public policy, hat in his Honor’s ojrnion, iliose principles wore rol appl'calde, 'where an estate was being nclministered under the laws ol bankruptcy, and the administrator was an officer of the Court. Chinese business men wore as a ruin scrupulously honest am] in bis opinion if would be denlovablo if an officer of the Court should be allowed to do what the Chinaman. whose estate lie was administering. would, had he lived, have scorned to uu. • Proof of the creditors’ claims was Accordingly admitted.