Sir Havilland de Sausmarez said:—The present appeals are by the defendants from the finding of law on @ preliminary point by the Consular Court at Hankow, and {wom the finding of mixed fact and law by the Assistant Judge of this Court who tried the action.
The claim is based on the personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff at the hands of the police of the British Concession at Hankow. He was brought into the police station drunk, and when there behaved in outrageous manner and with considerable violence. Ho resisted the Chinese constables who were trying to search him, with the result that the Inspector, Scott, interven-td himself. The plaintiff appears to have kicked at him and in the struggle which ensued the plaintiff's arm was broken. Were that all the defendanta would not, I think, be
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