Read the full judgment text of HCA 000087/1970 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. By a lease dated 31st July, 1968, the plaintiff demised to the first defendant the ground floor and cockloft of No. 12 Hennessy Road, Victoria, Hong Kong, for the term of five years and four months from the 1st day of May, 1968, at the monthly rental of $900 payable in advance on the first day of each month. The letting was expressed to be for business purposes though in fact the first defendant and his family had for many years before the date of the lease lived in the cockloft of the premis