Philadelphia & Reading Railroad v. Adams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, of Philadelphia county: Of January.Term 1878, No. 189. Case by Lena Adams against the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, of Philadelphia county: Of January.Term 1878, No. 189. Case by Lena Adams against the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. The narr. contained a single count, and alleged that Frank Adams, plaintiff’s son, was in a boat on the Delaware river, and was rowing the same in a careful manner; that defendant had a' steamship called the “Leopard,” under the care of its servants; that the defendant took such bad care thereof that it ran foul of and struck said boat, whereby said Adams was thrown into the water and was drowned. Plea, “Not guilty.” The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
A collision occurred on the afternoon of the 3d of July 1876, between the steam collier “Leopard,"’ belonging to the defendants below, and a row-boat in which there were four young men, of whom Frank Adams, the son of the plaintiff below, was one. The steamer was going down the Delaware river, on an ebb tide, at a rate of speed variously stated as from eight to twelve miles an hour. The boat was near the middle of the river, between the city of Philadelphia and the New Jersey shore, when the steamer approached it. Two of the men in it, one after the other, went into the water to swim. John…
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