Menard v. Goltra

The appeal is from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $10,000 damages on account of the death of the plaintiff’s husband, caused, it is alleged, by the negligence of the defendant’s employees. May 12, 1926, the defendant Goltra was operating on the Mississippi River two barges and a steamer, Minnesota. These barges, the defendant’s evidence shows, were each 300 feet in length and forty-eight feet wide, and were loaded, each approximately with 2000 tons of oxide ore, brought from New Orleans. They were side by side at a point called Fort Gage on the Illinois side, where a curve was in…