Gao Xizhi, the father-in-law of the People's Party Chairman Huang Guochang and a builder, was previously revealed to have been involved in the occupation of a state-owned school property base and owed 3.07 million yuan in rent, liquidated damages, interest, etc. The Ministry of Education launched a pursuit and applied for enforcement twice to the Taichung and Taipei District Courts. Gao Xizhi filed a civil "debtor" "Objection" lawsuit, denying the signing of a lease with the Ministry of Education; the Taipei District Court found that Gao's signature and seal on the contract were obviously inconsistent with Gao's handwriting and seal, and ruled that the Ministry of Education's claims against Gao did not exist, and revoked the North Court's enforcement order for more than 640,000 yuan. Can be appealed.
The Ministry of Education claimed that the house shared by Gao Xizhi and his friend Shi Hu was located on a state-owned academic base in Tianmu District, Taipei City. In order to obtain the rights to use the house and its ancillary facilities such as stairs, courtyards, swimming pools, etc., a lease contract was signed with the Ministry of Education on March 15, 2007. The lease period was from January 26, 2007 to December 31, 2011, and the monthly rent was 126,676 yuan.
The Ministry of Education pointed out that Gao Xizhi and Shi Hu repeatedly failed to pay rent after taking the lease. After the Ministry of Education applied to Shilin District Court for a payment order for the rent arrears from January 2008 to the end of October 2009, the two people still failed to pay on time. The Ministry of Education sent a letter to Gao Xizhi and Shi Hu at the end of August 2011. Shi Jingming terminated the lease and applied to the Taichung District Court for enforcement of the Yuan's payment order, requesting enforcement of unjust gains of NT$2,646,229 in rent, statutory delay interest of NT$281,014, and payment of business tax of NT$146,362, for a total of NT$3,073,605.
After the Taichung District Court enforced the law against Gao Xizhi and Shi Hu, the full amount was still not repaid. The Ministry of Education then issued a debt certificate to the Intermediate Court at the end of 2019, and held it again in 2024 to apply to the Taipei District Court for enforcement of the remaining principal and interest, totaling NT$644,875.
Gao Xizhi was dissatisfied and filed a debtor's objection lawsuit, claiming that he had never signed a lease contract with the Ministry of Education, nor had he accepted a letter from the Ministry of Education notifying him of the termination of the contract in 2011. Moreover, the signature on the lease was not his, and the seal was not his seal. Moreover, in July 2009, he had auctioned off one-fifth of the property rights of the house in his name to others, and the subsequent rent and the fact that he had no right to occupy it had nothing to do with him.
The judge investigated and found that the signature and seal of Gao Xizhi on the lease contract and the signature and seal of the seal certification application form from the Xindian Household Registration Office in New Taipei City were compared with the naked eye by the litigation agent of the Ministry of Education in court. They found that there was an obvious discrepancy. The Ministry of Education personnel also abandoned the original request for handwriting identification in court. Therefore, it is difficult to prove that the lease was signed and used by Gao Xizhi himself.
Although the Ministry of Education claimed that Gao Xizhi authorized Shi Hu to sign and use the seal on his behalf, and that Gao had paid two installments of one-year rent as scheduled, it claimed that Gao knew the lease was established and valid, and was not ignorant of it. However, the judge believed that the Ministry of Education failed to provide evidence to prove that Gao Xizhi authorized others to sign the contract on his behalf, and could not prove that it was Gao Xizhi who paid the rent. Therefore, the Ministry of Education lost the case. The debtor-rights relationship between the Ministry of Education and Gao Xizhi did not exist, and the enforcement order was revoked. The entire case remains open to appeal.
