Dr. Christianberg Pedersen, physician and surgeon on the vessel, said he was playing medicine ball on the top deck when the accident occurred to Mr. Husar. Jie was in the act of throwing the pall to witness. Mr. Husar, at the moment, was evidently blinded by the sun, for he threw the ball, weighing 9lb., in the wrong direction. The force of the ball was: sufficient to lift the awning stay off its sockets. Witness yelled to him to get out of the way, but he seemed to stand still and the spread der fell onto his head. He was not at all unconscious, only stunned. Witness examined and treated Mr. Husar. He sustained ai laceration one inch above the right eye an inch and a quarter in length, involving the skin, some muscle fibres, but not the bone.
In cross-examination Mr. Schuh asked if plaintiff's injury were calculated to affect his hair, and witness replied that it was not. Mr. Husar had never complained that the entire right side of his head was numbed after the accident, but he did say that the area above the laceration was numbed. Plaintiff seemed worried about a case in Shanghai, in which the patient afterwards contracted meningitis, The case was then adjourned.
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