Klutt v. Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co.

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

A reconsideration of the testimony offered by the plaintiff bn the trial has-only strengthened the opinion that led me to direct a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the contributory negligence of plaintiff’s husband was plainly apparent. He was rowing a small boat in broad daylight across the Delaware river from Petty’s Island to the Pennsylvania shore, a distance of about half a mile, and lost his' life in an effort to cross the bows of two loaded car floats, one lashed upon either side of a tug that was taking them up the river against the tide to…