Read the full judgment text of HCA 008573/1987 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 16 July 1990.
1. This is a claim by the Plaintiff stock broking company against the Defendants, who are husband and wife. The Plaintiff claims that it acted as broker for them jointly, or in the alternative for the 2nd Defendant, in share and futures contracts trading in account No. 04-67768 ("the account"), and that the balance owing on the account is HK$12,236,707.30. The claim was precipitated, as so many others since dealt with in this Court, by the stock market crash on Black Monday, the 19th October 198