Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 004886/1969 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 10 April 1970.
1. This case is concerned with the property known as Flat D, Gillies Manson 27-37 Gillies Avenue, Kowloon. This property which I shall refer to hereafter as "the flat" was originally purchased in 1964, by one Mak Joy, the father of the plaintiff and the defendant. Mak Joy died intestate on the 11th June 1966 leaving as sole issue the plaintiff and the defendant. The defendant had been married long ago by Chinese Law and Custom, and according to such law and custom, upon her marriage she ceased t