Prison and Fines for Banc Who Robbed Lumber Company Hearing of a civil suit in which Mr, V. Chourlianis claims the sum of $2780 for personal injuries received due to the reckless driving of Driver J. Swan, R.ASC. lorry-driver, was resumed in H.M. Supreme Court before Assistant Judge P. Grant Jones yesterday, Mr K. E. Newman represented the plaintiff while Mr. John McNeil appeared on behalf of the defendant, Mr. Chourlianis was involved in an accident on the Garden Bridge at 935 a.m, on June 2, when he was struck by a British Army lorry. Mr. A. Samoiloff revealed to the court that he was standing on the Garden Bridge on the morning of June 2 waiting for a friend, He said that he saw the plaintiff, whom he had known by sight, passing the last sentry box on the Hongkew side of the bridge, bound in the direction of Hongkew.
There was a semicircle of people passing the sentry box, he said, and the plaintiff was just passing the box pud turning towards the pavement when he saw him. The plaintiff was parrying two or three parcels in his hand. A motor car knocked the plaintiff down, said the witness, and the next thing he saw was the wheel on his leg. As the plaintiff made a step forward with his right foot a druck came from behind him, The truck stopped and the next thing the witness saw was a shoe and the parcels lying on the ground,
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