Shanghai, 6th December. Before R. A. Mowar, Esq., Assistant Judge, Stoax v, Jester.
The plaintiff, a doctor of medicine practising at Shanghai, sought to recover from the propriotur of the Globe tavern, Wousung. Road, the sum of $37.50, balance of an account for medical attendance in 1*88, intid! said he agreed to attend del and four children for t He attended at various of doing a0 being on July 30th, but had not been able to obtain payment of more than half the year's bill.
defendant here produced receipts for $20 and $20 which the plaintiff, after examin ing, admitted to be currect, the claim being thus reduced to $30.
Defendant went on to make a number of allegations against the if of having treated defendant's family improperly.. He produced sone medicine which be wid Dr. loan had given his (defendant's) wife after her confinement and which, hi effect of making her ill for @ fort He also said that when he called upon, Sloan to tell him his services were no longer required, Dr. have a yama of bil pockets with cigars, In the course of this story defendant indulged in various comments which called forth from His Honour the remark that defendant was not doing his case any gued by such observations.
Plaintiff' having produced a transcript frou his book, showing that he to defendant's children, who was in April and that plainti looked at the children and went away without even writing a prescription for them, Plaintiff replied that he wrote prescriptions which were made up by Messrs, Mactavish and Lehmann in July.
His Honour said the case would be decided for him by evidence on this point—
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