Maury v. Talmadge
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Ohio
[This was an action for damages for personal injury by M. T. Maury against Talmadge.]
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF
THE COURT.
This action was brought to recover damages for the upsetting of the defendant’s stage, in 1839. in which the plaintiff, being a passenger, was much injured. The upset was near Somerset, on the route from Chillieothe to Zanesville; and is charged to have been caused ■ by the want of skill, and negligence in the driver, overloading the stage, and want of lights. Plea, not guilty. The plaintiff offered evidence to prove that, at Maysville, in Kentucky. the southern terminus of the route, a special contract was made with the agent of the defendant, by the passengers, that not…
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