Peck v. Neil
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Ohio
[This was an action at law by William L. Peck and wife against Neil, to recover damages for injury sustained by Mrs. Peck.]
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF
THE COURT.
This action is brought for an injury done the plaintiff’s wife, by the overturning of the stage through the carelessness of the driver, the defendant being the proprietor. The plea of not guilty was filed by the defendant In the summer of 1840, there were two stage lines on the route between Marietta and Zanesville, Ohio. One carried the mail. Neil’s line was run in opposition to the mall line. On the 2d of August, Peck and wife took Neil’s line of stages at Zanesville, for Marietta. The stages left Zanesville at about the same hour. The accommodation sometimes passed the…
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