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Show ODD CASE IN HIGH COURT Decision Depends on Justices' Ability to Read Chinese Tablets Washigton. March R On the ability abil-ity of the justices of the supreme court to read the Chinese characters written on two inner tablets from a temple In Anoy, China, will depend largely the outcome of a case before the court today. The tablets have heen brought from China as evidence that Vlcento Romero Ro-mero Sy Quia married Yap Puan Nltl in 1847 and that two children were born to the union Chinese interpreters interpre-ters differ as to the storv the tablets tell The secretary of the Chinese legation lega-tion in Washington has been called in b attorneys to decipher the characters. char-acters. Still the dispute as to the I tablets continue The court must decide de-cide who is correct. Inheritance Involved. The decision will determine the inheritance in-heritance of some $300,000 left by Sy Quia upon his death in 1894 in Manila It is admitted that Sy Quia married a woman in the Philippines In 185?. and reared a family there. These children claim all the property. proper-ty. The Filipino children rely In part upon the fact that Sy Hlen. a brother, broth-er, upon Sy Quia's death placed the nine silk suits which had been put upon Sy Quia at the Lime of the funeral fu-neral upon the eldest of the Filipino children. According to Chinese custom, cus-tom, these suits were to be placed j upon the eldest heir. |