Plaintiff claimed damages for injury to bim from defendants' negligence as engineers and for a breach of contract to construct s wharf bonding.
Mr. T. Morgan Phillips represented iff and Mr. Loftus Jones appeared for defendants.
H, C. Maller, Assistant Surveyor in the I. M. Castoms, was recalled. He stated that he visited the wharf about eight or nine days ago and made obserations from which he made the plan produced, showing the present height of the wharf.
Mr, siones asked leave to re-call Mr.
Chambers to show that he saw th dredgers at the wharf at the time tha bbe made the soundings.
P. A. H. Chambers, Superintendent of the Shanghai & Hongkew Whart Ca., Ld., said that he saw Mr. Hooley taking soundings when the dredgers wore at the wharf, Witness saw Mr, Hooley there when he was negotiating about the working of the mndboats. Butterfield and Swire's dredger was slongeide the whart when witness made the sounding of 27 feet.
To cross-examination witness denied that he shouted to Mi. Hooley from carriage on Saturday "Oh you lovely liar."
Witness did say, as hie carriage passed quite closely to Mr. Hooley, and he said it more out of friondabip than anything else, "Oh you lovely cripple."
This concluded the evidence, and counsel addressed the Court.
Mr. Jones firet dealt with the general law on the case gnd then lied it to the fects. Dealing with the evidence, he aid that the gentlemen who bad been called for the defence had of course made carefal caleolations and had gone into the matter in detail in the witness box.
The main point with regard to the timber was the question of whether or not the beams were to be considered beams of uniform section or of uniform strength, It was only necessary to indicate that this question of the strength of the beams wes quite a difficult one and it could not be correctly determined unless one took into consideration all the elements dealt with in the text books. He contended that he was justified in caying that so far as the firat part of the plaintiffs case was concerned, that the defendants hed been negligent as professional men, they hed refuted that statement, It could not be said that they hed been negligent, with regard to the dredging and the length of the piles. With regard to
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