To the Supreme Court of British Columbia

The fourteenth day of November A.D. 1878

The Plaintiff, Tai Chong by Robert Edwin Jackson his Attourney sues the defendant John Maguire for that the defendant converted to his own use and wrongfully deprived Plaintiff of the use and possession of the Plaintiff's goods that is to say three chests of tea and the Plaintiff further sues the defendant for that the defendant broke and entered the dwelling thereto belonging to the plaintiff, and continued and stayed therein for the space of one day making great noise and disturbance therein and greatly disturbed and disquieted the Plaintiff in the possession and enjoyment of the said dwelling house and thew also with force and arms took and seized divers goods and chattels to wit three chests of tea thou being in the said dwelling house and in certain parts thereof thew used as a shop by the Plaintiff in his trade and business of a merchant and which said goods and chattels thew were part of the stock in trade of the Plaintiff in the way of his trade and business and of great value to wit five hundred dollars and converted and disposed thereof to his own use to wit under a false and unfounded claim that the defendant was thew entitled to seize and take possession of the said goods to enforce payment of a certain license then alleged to be due from the Plaintiff to Her Majesty by value of the Chinese Tax Act 1878 by means whereof and of the premises the Plaintiff was greatly annoyed prejudiced suffered and disturbed in carrying and conducting his trade and business and was