Read the full judgment text of HCPI 000786/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 14 December 1999.
1. The plaintiff is the administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband who was the sole proprietor of Mansion Design Decoration & Engineering Company. The deceased had contracted to maintain the salt water plumbing system in Yuen Fat Building. On 5 August 1995, he was summonsed by the management of the building to attend to certain repairs. He arrived at the management office at about 10:30 p.m. and collected the key to the pump room. At about noon on the following day, he was found lying