Read the full judgment text of HCCL 001571/1978 on BabelCite. This HCCL judgment was delivered on 9 January 1979.
1. The plaintiff is a customer of the defendant bank. At the end of last year she had three accounts there. One of them was a loan account on which she owed the bank HK$1,300,000. On the 25th November Sir Sik Nin Chau, pursuant to an agreement made earlier with the plaintiff, drew upon the defendant bank a cheque to the same amount of $1,300,000 payable to the plaintiff and crossed. The plaintiff sent it to the bank through her solicitors on the 1st December with a covering letter instructing th