Yeo How Sam v Chop Bee Huat

• Jurisdiction: Singapore
• Judgment Date: 14 February 1947
• Date: 14 February 1947
• Docket Number: Case No. 5
• Court: Supreme Court (Singapore)

Singapore Colony, Supreme Court.

(Brown, J.)

Case No. 5

Yeo How Sam

and

Chop Bee Huat.

Belligerent Occupation — Consummation of — Evidence — Conclusiveness of Statements of Executive.

Conclusiveness of Statements of Executive — Extent of Principle of Conclusiveness — Statement as to Consummation of Occupation of Borneo by Enemy Forces — Admissibility in Evidence — Law of Singapore.

The Facts.—In an action before the Supreme Court of Singapore the defendants sought to tender in evidence as part of their case a letter which was signed by the Secretary of the Special Commissioner for South-East Asia and which purported to be a reply to a letter from the defendants' solicitors enquiring on what date in 1942 the Island of Borneo was completely occupied by the Japanese forces. The relevance of this evidence to the defendants' case does not appear from the report. It was argued by counsel for the defendants that the letter was...