The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-17
WANTS BIG
DAMAGES
Chinese involved
In a Law
Suit.
Ding Sing Asks Fifteen
Thousand Dollars
From Lee Chu,
Oahu Lumber and Building CO.
is Made Defendant Writ of
ne Exeat Cause.

| The Oahu Lumber & Building Co
is made defendant in a suit for s15,-
| 900 damages filed Saturday by c. Dir
Sing who claims to have been mali
ciously prosecuted.
The petition filed Saturday morning
alleges that the plaintiff is "a reputa-
BILE citizen and merchant, having been
engaged in business in Honolulu for
the past twenty-three years"
1t is further alleged that on the 7tn
day Of August, 1903. the defendant,
through its president, Lee Chu, false
ly and maliciously caused to be in
stituted a suit against the plaintiff
for the sum of s441.51 and that de-
PENDANT in that suit also prayed for
a writ of ne exeat whereby c. Din Sing
was to be arrested and taken into GUS
tody until he should file a bond not
to attempt to leave the Territory.
1t is then alleged "That the said de-
PENDANT in so doing acted maliciously
and without probable cause, for the
purpose of injuring this plaintiff in his
reputation and business. That upon
obtaining said writ, it caused an alarm
to be sent throughout Honolulu that
the Territory without paying his just
debts, and caused his house to h
searched and his wife and child sub
jected to great indignity, and caused
an outgoing steamer, to wit: the
Nippon Maru' to be searched to as
certain whether said plaintiff was hid
den therein.
That plaintiff had no intention at
that time of leaving on said steamer,
as the officers and agents of said de-
PENDANT corporation we'll knew. but
was residing quietly In said Honolulu
without making any attempt to leave
the same.
THAT thereafter on the same 9TH
day of August. 1903, the said defend
by its attorneys, ]. Alfred Magoon and
]. Lightfoot, after having caused all
the scandal and disgrace possible to
said plaintiff, by its actions, and hav-
ing caused notice of the issuance of
said writ and the search for this plain
tiff to be published in the daily news |
papers of Honolulu, filed in the Cir
cult Court of the First judicial Circuit |
a discontinuance of the action afore- |
said
1t is further alleged THAT all of |
this time this plaintiff, c. Din Sing, |
was unaware of the action of said de- !
until he heard of the same |
through the scandal created and hue |
and cry raised by said defendant, the |
said Oahu Lumber & Building Co., |
Ltd, that Immediately upon hearing |
said facts, he notified the Police De-
oartment, through his attorneys, that |
lie was ready and willing to accept
service of any process against him,
md was informed that said process
lad been withdrawn and suit discon-
inued by the said Oahu Lumber &
Building Co.
THAT the whole of this malicious ana
alse prosecution was instigated, insti-
uted and continued by the defendant
erein, it well knowing that it had no
robable cause for the instigation, in
titution or continuance of the same.
THAT through the actions of the
aid defendant, the Oahu Lumber &c
'uilding Co., Ltd. as aforesaid. and
/ falsely, maliciously and without
robable cause obtaining the writ OF
e exeat for the arrest and imprison-
lent Of the defendant, and in causing
earch of his premises to be made and =
ublic notoriety to be given to said
suance of said writ. and insult and
ldignity offered to his family, and
isgrace offered to himself. plaintiff =
as been injured and damaged in the a
I'm of Fifteen Thousand Dollars"