Judgment with costs in favour of the defendant was r. Jadered by Judge Milton D, Purdy in the U.S. Court for China on September 13 in the faction for G.$10,000 and Tls. 2,000 brought by, Mrs. Kong Leong-kwok against Mr. R. W. Squires whose automobile is alleged to have struck and seriously injured Miss Kong the gid had not appeared ahead of them but had. rushed out as they passed and had collided with the fide of the cat.
'As they were pasting the tram to the defend. fant nor distracting his attention in was looking ahead fas she was, and she was sure thet the' gie! had rushed out when they} wore half way past the tram.
"The fist she knew of the accident was when oer husband gave & sudden exclamation. She Tooked out the sear window and saw a girl [seen clearly the road ahead and he the victim had been wholly responsible for her own death.
He asked for the disin zal of the case on three grounds, first, that the evidence submitted did not establish the defendant as being guilty of any negligence whatsoever, Second, that the evidence did not establish that the deceased at the time of the accident was in the lexereise of the proper: care, and third, that the evidence did establish that the deceased at the time had had been guilty of compole negli:
The feature of the hearing was the application by Dr. Fischer for subpoenas for the attendance at the, next hearing of Mr. E, 8. Cunningham, U.S, Consul General, Mr. S. Edwards, scerstary of the S.M. and Mr. Hsu Moh the local comimisner of foreign affairs.
After a lengthy consultation between Judge Tseng and his asso-[lates the application was denied, Then followed a mild clash between, Dr. Fischer and Mr, Bryan over the length of time the' counsel for the accused would "argue the ease which Dr. Fischer terminated with the" remark that in any ease he would occupy ten hours of the court's time and he might possibly take longer. Mr. Bryan. reminded the court that in the court of first instance Dr. Fischer had Corps) and C-S-M. White, of the} Tang-tam on Vu Yuen Road on writhing on the pavement. The car taken over two full hearings for his Wiltshire Regt,, with 88, September 20, 19% Was stopped and they both rushed Judgment for Defendant argument and Dr. Fischer's reply:
Plaintiff sued as mother and Back. She held the gin's heal Following are the scores:—Mr. Franklin continued that here was that if he bored Mr. Bryan the administratrix of the estate of the ut' hor husband returned ami 200 500 600, Total was a case where one wanted police advocate could leave the room. deceased who died several days after brought the car about and the de-to do something for the family of At the opening of the hearing the accident and whose death was) ceased was taken immediately to the Red' Cross Hospital the deceased but to make any award oth of the accused were asked if Biltnuser Mo Hoe hastened by the imbedding in her in her favour, in face of the evid-they had any further statements to Gene BH 8 buck of the door handle of the 'She had the impression that, the ence submitted, would be against: SIN, nestering 92 92 3198 motor car which, through the force. horn had been sounded as ther' make and they had not. wvicand 32 2 5 of the impact, lodged between two proached the rear of the tram good law. He was sorry for thi Dr. Fischer then made his appli-ribs and broke off. Because of the: bur she was not sure. Her husband family and ho believed the girl ha¢ cation for subpanas and gave as his fall the virtues that had been d girl's weakened condition it was was a most careful driver and she roagons: In the ease of Mr. Ed-not possible to remove the handle Saw nothing unusual in that he was ed for her. Nevertheless he bell wards that he wanted to establish, driving at the speed she had given 4 she had been solely responsible fo whether or not certain other gam-Witte BH do 88 for several days and following an operation she contracted pneumonia find pasted within a few fect of a her own death. bling houses were given a sufficient which was a contributing factor to Standing tram which bad Jost dle-He believed that grants in such warning before they were closed by her death.
Charged: passengers. cases in the United States were be-the police, He wanted to ascertain Defendant was represented by!
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