Interpreter's Successful Claim in Supreme Court Probably the smallest claim on record in a motor car collision case was heard by his Honour Judge Grain at H. M. Supreme Court on Tuesday. The plaintiff was Lo Hong-ti, interpreter in the office of Mr. R. C. Faithfull, and he claimed, from Mr. Thomas Wallace, Shanghai Waterworks accountant, $10 damages to his ricsha knocked over by plaintiff's motor car in Nanking Road. oad.
Plaintiff stated that he was riding in his ricsha near Louza police station when defendant's car came up from heind and passing very close to his shafts, knocked the ricsha over. Witness was "thrown out bub not injured, and one wheel of the ricsha was buckled. The car was pulled up 2 yd. ahead and defendant got out and gave his name to a Sikh police constable, but instead of apologizing to witness for what he had don: he said that the coolie Damned well deserved it." He was written to on three occasions and asked to pay $10 for repairing the riesha, but replied that the riesha. ran into the ear.
In answer to My. J. H. Teesdale, who appeared for defendant, plaintiff denied that he had had another accident recently. This was the only accident he had had since he had been in Shanghai.
His Lordship:—How long have you been in Shanghai?
Plaintiff:-—Twenty years.
His Lordship:—Then you are lucky. man.
Defendant, in his evidence, said that he did not notice the ricsha before the collision. He heard something strike the car from behind and told the chauffeur to stop, and he afterwards found that the shaft of plaintiff's ricsha, had made dent in his mudguard. The accident occurred because plaintiff's riesha man tuned out towards the centre of the road to pass another riesha.
Plaintiff:—If your ear was going ing at a greater speed than the riesha how could I strike you from behind?
Defendant's chauffeur gave evidence, but said that he did not see the actual collision.
His Lordship commented on the fact that neither defendant nor his chauffeur saw the accident, and gave judgement for plaintiff for the amount claimed with costs.
Ar an inquest held at the United States Court for China, on Tuesday, on the body of Harry' Anderson, seaman from the str. West Islip, whose body was recovered from the river, it was decided that he came by death accidentally, having, whilst drunk, fallen from a sampan as he was attempting to board his ship.
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