Read the full judgment text of FACV 000009/1998 on BabelCite. This FACV judgment was delivered on 14 December 1998.
1. This appeal concerns the effect of covenants contained in an assignment of properties in Causeway Bay now owned by the appellant (defendant). The assignment is dated 26 April 1954. The properties are Nos. 6 and 8 Kai Chiu Road which form part of a block of 16 houses standing on Section Q of Inland Lot No. 29. Section Q was carved out of Inland Lot 29, a very large piece of land, which the respondent (plaintiff) had owned in its entirety at one time. Nos. 6 and 8 Kai Chiu Road stand on subsect