SUPREME COURT OF THE CANAL ZONE.

DUE PROCESS OF LAW.
Due process of law embraces both substantive law and the practice or proceedings by which law is administered, and the practice, the construction of law and the remedies granted by the courts of the United States are a charge on and a jurisdictioaal part of the Circuit Courtsof the Canal Zone. In cases arising after the establishment of th2 Circuit Courts of the Canal Zone, relief is to be given in harmony and in accordance with the established lawof the United States, where life, liberty, and property are involved.
MANDATE.
A mandate is a contract whereby one person entrusts to another the direction. of one or more business matters, the on, so entrusted taking charg! thereof for the account and the risk of the other. This contract does not differ from that of agency or trust and need not be in writing. The mandatory is required to render an account of his stewardship.
RESULTING TRUST.
A resulting trust may be created in the Canal Zone.
ERROR.
Any error committed by the trial court is not of necessity reversible.
Appeal by defendant from judgment of the Circuit Court of the First Judicial Circuit; Hon. H. A. Gudger, Judge.
The facts appear in the opinion.
Hinckley and Ganson for appellant. Carrington and Todd for appellees.
LORIN C. COLLINS, J. This was an action brought to establish a resulting trust. There were two trials, on the first of which the court found for the defendant and afterwards granted a new trial. On the second trial the court found for the plaintiff. A motion for a new trial being denied, the case is brought here on appeal.
The court below found the facts to be:
1. That Kung Ching Chong, the plaintiff herein, did from the month of January, A. D., 1908, conduct business at Miraflores, Canal Zone, under the name of Kwong Wo and Company, and that said Kung Ching Chong is the sole member of the said firm of Kwong Wo and Company;
2. That on or about the 23d day of January, A. D., 1908, said plaintiff constituted Wing Chong, the defendant, his trustee and agent to purchase for the said plaintiff the property described in

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