Dr. Szyszlo's Claim for $7,643:
Evidence on Condition of Water Supply ex evidence was heard in.S. Court for China last Friday morning, with Judge C. S. Lobingier on the bench, in the case of Dr. Adam Szyszlo against. the Shanghai Estate Ca. Plaintiff is asking for damages to the extent of $7,643 for alleged injury to personal belongings, injuries to the health of himself, and his wife and son, loss sustained because of inability to pursue -his protes-sion and for medical attention. Plaintiff was represented by Mr. Stirling Fessenden and Mr. A. N. Fishman, while Mr. F. J. Schutl appeared for defendant.
In the course of the hearing Mr. Schuhl called a Chineses employee of the Burlington Sanitary Supply Ca., the firm which had installed the piping and water fittings. Witness stated in answer to questions that only good material, galvanized iron pipes and tested taps, had been used in carrying out the contract, and that all the taps had been tested and were in proper working order. Under cross-examination by Mr. Fessenden, witness stated that the tests had been made on the main feed pipe, by means of a pressure pump test. In reply to a question whether a direct test had been made on the attic tap (the one alleged to have burst, causing the damage) Witness said that the test was only made on the main pipe in the kitchen, but that this was satisfactory for the entire premises. He asserted that he had never been asked to make any repairs on the piping afterwards.
In the few minutes that Mr. G. N. Wilson, an architectural surveyor, was in the—witness box, he stated that he and Mr. Wingrove had made an examination together and that his opinion coincided with the latter. There was no sign of smoke on the wall or charred wood round the fireplace in the room in question and that it had been trimmed in the usual custom. Mr. Fessenden asked whether he had examined the flue, to which witness replied that to do so it would have been necessary to cut away part of the wall. To the suggestion that there might have been repairs made and he be not aware of it, he stated that as far as repairing the concrete, such might have easily been done and to defy detection for it was difficult to differentiate between old and new cement, but as far as he could tell there had been no new wood introduced: 2 Another witness for the defence, was the No. 1 fitter of the company, who supervised the workmen. He stated that he had installed the tap in the attic and! stopcocks in the kitchen and outside, and. under questioning told of the pressure gauge he used to test the strength. He said that although the pressure in the French Concession pipes was
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