Kelley v. Pennsylvania R. Co.

This action was brought to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff from being caught between two vessels belonging to the defendant, while assisting in pushing one past the other in a slip belonging to the defendant, when in its employ. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that another of the defendant’s vessels was run against the one he was pushing, and caused the injury to him. The defendant’s evidence tended to show that it -was not, and that the injury was caused by the motion of the waters given by the tide, and by passing vessels. The defendants also claimed that…