Watering Rue clu Consular To the Editor of the "Mohrh-Cwhn Dany News"
518;—Consitwiei authority can fine &n individual for committing a public nuisance. I wonder if an individual could collect from a government if it did the same thing.
If, while driving down Rue clu Consulat which is sprinkled every morning just at the hour when trafic is the "heaviest, my car skids and seriously injures a pedestrian, who sues me for damages, would -I be justified in bringing the CMF. into Court to recover the amount I have to pay the injured pedestrian, and also the cost of repairing my car? Actually, the CMF. is at fault, and, therefore, should be responsible.
Irrespective of the legal side of the question, ordinary care and consideration for the public welfare should be sufficient for the proper authorities to see that the sprinkling of Rue clu Consular is done early enough so as to let the street dry before the traffic begins.
A POTENTIAL PEDESTRIAN KILLER.
Shanghai, Oct. 29.
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