American Steamship Co. v. Landreth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 4, of Philadelphia county : Of July Term 1882, No. 75. Case, by Eliza G Landreth against the American Steamship Company, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her, in consequence of the alleged negligence of the defendant in not providing a guard-rail on a certain part of the cabin of a steamship.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 4, of Philadelphia county : Of July Term 1882, No. 75. Case, by Eliza G Landreth against the American Steamship Company, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her, in consequence of the alleged negligence of the defendant in not providing a guard-rail on a certain part of the cabin of a steamship. On the trial, before Elcock, J., the following facts appeared: — The plaintiff was a passenger on board the steamship Pennsylvania, a vessel of the company defendant, on a voyage in October, 1877, from Liverpool to. Philadelphia. After a severe…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
Plaintiff below was a cabin passenger on board the company’s steamship Pennsylvania on her voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia, during which the vessel for several days in succession encountered a heavy sea. After the storm ■had sómewhat abated, plaintiff attempted to cross the saloon for the. purpose of entering the state-room of a fellow-passengér. While she was in the act of doing so, the ship gave *135a sudden lurch by which she was thrown backwards on the floor, and in the effort to save herself, the bones of her wrist were fractured. She fell alongside a smooth paneling, twelve feet long,…
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