LAU WING KWONG DANIEL(the administrator of LAU CHEUNG HEI YAM alias LAU CHEUNG SHI, deceased and the administrator of LAU KWOK WING, deceased) v LAU MING FAT (the administrator of LAU CHOI FUNG YING alias LAU CHOI SHI, deceased)

Read the full judgment text of HCMP 003308/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 12 April 1999.

2. The story of this case goes back to the beginning of this century. In or about 1922 a gentleman by the name of LAU Sai Iat (劉世逸) ("the Ancestor") died intestate in Fuzhou in the province of Fukien, China. With the passage of time and intervening wars, very little is known or can be ascertained about the Ancestor. For instance, none of the descendants knows the last address of the Ancestor. It is accepted by all parties concerned that the Ancestor lived to over the age of 70 and he had a Kit F