Read the full judgment text of HCMP 000001/1945 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 14 January 1946.
1. Applicants in this case seek to recover certain premises which they allege were vacated by the On Lok Co. (to whom they had been let in 1939) some time after the fall of Hong Kong in 1941. Applicants claim that they are entitled to an eviction order against the Opponents whom they allege to be the present occupiers, or "sub-tenants" within the meaning of Article 5(b) of Proclamation No. 15. They claim an order under 5(b), alternatively under 5(a). The answer alleges that the On Lok Co. have b