EARING of the lost car claim for $2,205 brought against Fraser Motors, Ltd., by Dr. A. Peretz was concluded before Assistant Judge P. Grant Jones in H.M. Supreme Court yesterday afternoon. The amount of the claim included $1,680, representing the equivalent of US$100, the insured value of the lost car, and $525 which the doctor had.spent on hire car fare during the period in which the doctor's car had been in the custody of the defendant.
Mr. Vladimir Bashinsky, Russian mechanic employed at Fraser Motors, told the court how he had found a car in Hungjao Road, opposite the Municipal Gardens, on January 1. He had been on his way to attend to a ear' which had broken down in MeLeod Road when he was motioned to stop by the watchman of the gardens and two small boys, who were standing near the car in Hungjao Road, As he was in a hurry to get to McLeod Road he did not stop, but on the way back he drew up at the gardens and asked what was the matter.
Witness learned from the watchman that the car had been standing in Hungjao Road for two days, since Saturday night, (December 30) and when it got darx the watchman wheeled the car into the gardens. The two small boys had been told to look-see after the car by the two persons who left it there. The Chinese fitter, who was with the mechanic, said that the car might be the one they were looking for on Saturday night, when they went to the vicinity in answer to Mrs. Gregg's telephone call and found no car. The mechanic examined the car and found to whether Mrs. Gregg had actually told him that the car was hers, said that he only had conversation with Mrs, Gregg.
Judge: She did all the talking.
Witness said that Mrs. Gregg went into the charge room first and that he did not hear what she had said at the police station, This was on December 30, when the car was reported stolen. The mechanic said that Sgt. Till, Mrs. Gregg, the plaintiff and himself had been in the detective room at the station and that he did not hear what was said. Mrs.
Gregg said something, he admitted, but he did not hear what she said, He admitted that the. plaintiff had asked him how much he owed him but said that he thought that ıt was a tip. Asked who he thought that man was, the mechanic replied that he thought he was a playboy something.
Judge: Isn't the practice among all peoples that the man pays the bill?
Bashinsky reiterated that he had telephoned the police after he had found the car on January 1 and said that he thought all his duties had
call. been discharged by that telephone the axle shaft broken, so he lifted the car on a service truck crane and took it to the garage. Before he left he gave the watchman and the look-see boys one dollar, in answer to demands for cumshaw,
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