Read the full judgment text of HCA 001040/1974 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 14 January 1975.
1. The defendant has been for many years the tenant of certain premises in Pei Ho Street, Kowloon. I shall refer to him simply as "the tenant". Some time in 1972 the plaintiff acquired the reversion of those premises and thereby became the landlord of the tenant, I shall call him "the landlord". In May of 1973 the landlord and tenant signed an agreement whereby the tenant in consideration of a total sum of $6,200 agreed amongst other things to surrender the premises to the landlord on or before