.No Ronin in NOTHER ait-day hearing of a wat risk insurance claim for LX. $27,107.65 brought against the Homie Insurance Company by Lite Hwa Tung Ekéetticdl & General Engineering Works took place Before Judge Milton J. Helmick in the United States Court for China yesterday. During the hearing two witnesses gave evidence, Mr. Chang Shu-shing, Chinese storekeeper employed by the plaintiff firm, and Mr. F. One, former Japanese watchmiäñ at the Hwa Tung plant in Point Road.. Messrs. C. S. Franklin and P. F., Faison appeared for the plaintiff, while Mr. H. G. Nelson was counsel for the defendant insurance company.
At the conclusion of his examination by Mr. in, Chang Shishing said that no equipment or machinery was removed from the factory between the time of the yearly inventory and August 14, 1937. It such equipment had been taken out, he said, he would have known of it.
Cross-examined by Mr. Nelson, the storekeeper said that he was positive that no machinery could have Been removed without his knowledge. He was positive that every machine described on the bill of particulars "which had been sent to the insurance company was in the factory on August 14. The Chinese version of the bill of particulars was pr by him and he put nothing om the draft that was not in the factory.
One machine, he admitted, was not jh the factory int the time but had been taken out for repairs. This was a verti¢al machine, one to two tons in weight, and it was taken out of the factory about one month before August 14 and taken to repair shop in Nantao. The machine was now in the Edinburgh Road factory of the Hwa Tung Ca, having been placed there just before the new factory was started.
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