(judgment for Plalatif})
Mrs, Chen Wong-shih, was awarded $2.160' damages by Judge Milton J. Helmick in the United States Court for China on August 4 Mr. Charles H. Raven, Jr. hit a wheelbarrow coolie by the name of Chen Shan, the husband of the plaintiff, causing injuries of which the man died early the next morning. Mrs. Chen was suing for US. $5,000, charging negligent driving.
"The case turned on the point that motorists in Shanghai must expect to encounter various hand-propelled vehicles, and as long as those vehicles are travelling on the left side of the road they have equal rights with the motorist in the use of the road, In' delivering his opinion Judge Helmick reviewed the evidence of Mr, Raven during the trial, stating that it was truly related, and that the defendant was driving at a slow rate of speed on the dark and rainy night in question. He went on to say that Mr. Raven's view had been temporarily impaired by the headlights of an approaching motor car shortly before the accident occurred.
Coming to an important part of the case, the Judge stated that
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