[b] Choo Eng Choon, who was a bank comprador, died intestate in Singapore, leaving a large estate.
Six claimants alleged that they were widows of the deceased and therefore entitled to a portion of his estate under the Statute of Distribution.
[2] The court received expert testimony on Chinese law, including from China's consul-general to Singapore (who testified about the Great Qing Legal Code), attesting that polygamy was impermissible.
[1] Litigants in the Six Widows Case unsuccessfully challenged the holding in Re Goods of Lao Leong An (1867), WOC 35, 1 SSLR 1.
[4] Chief Justice Archibald Fitzgerald Law made his decision on appeal from Velge's determination in 1908.