on Tues China, Council, on a claim for £3,000 as compensation for the death of Johann Lott, her son, aged 22, which occurred as the result of injuries sustained in the Hongkew open-air swimming bath on August 2A, 1927. The Court consisted of Mr. E.'S. Cunningham (United States), presiding, Sir Sidney Barton (Great Britain), and Major J. L, Isler (Switzerland), with Mu E, Whitamore as clerk. Mr, H.
Hodger and Dr. O. Fischer represented the plaintiff, and Mr. A.C. Holborow and Mr. J. MeNeiti appeared for the S. M. C.
The complaint alleged that the! injuries sustained by the deceased, through striking the conerete bottom of the bath in a dive, were caused by the negligence of the defendants in not having the water in the bath ata proper depth and in not gi 'a warning that the depth was sufficient. Defendants replied that the deceased essayed a fancy dive of a hazardous nature which should only have been performed by an expert diver; it was his duty to ascertain the depth of water before diving, and they generally alleged contributory negligence.
Mr, Rodger, in opening, said it was an unfortunate coincidence that the fatal dive was one known as the "dead man's dive," but it was a simple feat not requiring excepional skill and was perfectly safe in such a depth of water as it was reasonable to expect would be in the bath,
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