Legal Opinion
Holmes v. Oregon & California R.
United States Circuit Court
Decided October 20, 1881PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSawyer, C. J.
On petition for rehearing. ' This is an appeal from a decree of the district court, in a suit to recover the sum of $4,900, under section 367 of the Oregon Civil Code, on account of the death of William A. Perkins, which occurred on November 16, 1878, and which is alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant while transporting said Perkins across the Wallamet river, at Portland, on its steam-ferry.
On the day named the deceased, then in Ms twenty-second year, in company with Ms mother, Mary A. Biggs, left Salem, Oregon, for Portland, in the same state, intending to take the…
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