Are to Pay $2,400 in Accident Claim Damages of $2400, together with costs, were awarded to Mrs. L. M. Shilova, Russian seamstress, against the China Navigation Ca., Ltd, by Judge P. Grant Jones in H. M-Supreme Court yesterday.
Mrs.
10, 1939, when she was struck and aren by defendants on June aded that she was on a
knocked: down by an iron chain, thereby sustaining injuries to the back and right hand, and was unable to continue making her living as a seamstress. The plaintiff was represented by Mr. K. E. Newman, and the defendants by Mr. C. E. Sher'
In reviewing the evidence Judge Grant Jones: stated that analysis showed that the plaintiff left the s. Shuntien, where she was seeing a customer off, at the sound of the first gong, and proceeded to the pontoon by the gangway leading to the main deck. She stepped over a chain to talk to her customer, and whilst doing so was struck from behind. The next witness heard the noise of a moving chain and noticed that it was raised off the pontoon. He jumped over this chain, the other people on the pontoon moving back. The third witness also heard the chain move; he further heard a shriek at the same time, and saw the plaintiff fall backwards, All these witnesses Agreed that no warning was given before the accident, nor did they see anybody moving the chain until later.
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