Yonge v. the Pacific Mail S.S. Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the district court of the district of San Francisco. The facts of the ease, so far as they are material, will be found in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Bennett, J.
The action is against the defendants as common carriers of passengers, upon an alleged contract to carry the plaintiff from New Orleans to San Francisco. The only question for consideration arises upon the second charge of the district court, which was excepted to. The first and third points, upon which the district judge charged the jury, were correctly ruled by him.
On the second point made by the plaintiffs in error, the judge charged the jury as follows : “ That it being shown in evidence “ that the plaintiff was a good bookkeeper, and his servant an “ able bodied…
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