Show GRAVE TABlETS s ETTLE SHANGHAI r Nov 3 As As a means of adjusting a difference between Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese litigants who appeared In the mixed court coutt r the recently the court directed that a n grave mound years old be opened The dispute concerned the ownership ownership owner owner- ship of a n. small tract of ground In Inthe Inthe Inthe the action Sung dong Chul-dong alleged that Yih Woo zoong Woo zoong Invaded the premIses premises premises prem prem- under controversy and erected a a. bamboo fence around certain graves thereon asserting that the place was his ancestral burying ground The plaintiff claimed the property as his own b by ancestral grant When the grave grae mounds were opened there were vere brought to light the tab tab- 1 lets of ot a Chinese and his wife who t had lived and died under the reign of tho the Emperor Kang lIst HsI When the tablets were brought to court It was found that the characters characters characters charac charac- on them were of ot peculiar form and the writing read from left let to to right Instead of from top to bottom but the Inking was clear and t the e were well preserved After the reading of the tablets the court announced the graves as those of ot the defendants defendant's family and Sung Bungs s 's 1 was dismIssed 1 |