Price v. Houston Direct Navigation Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. James Masterson. The steamboat Henry A. Jones, owned by the defendant, (a corporation, created by the laws of Texas,) loaded at Houston on the 13th February, 1873. The load was chiefly cotton, in bales, and whilst in Galveston Bay, from some reason, fire was communicated to the cotton, or to the vessel. The fire was first discovered about five o’clock in the morning. When first seen, it seems to have been well under way.
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Appeal from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. James Masterson. The steamboat Henry A. Jones, owned by the defendant, (a corporation, created by the laws of Texas,) loaded at Houston on the 13th February, 1873. The load was chiefly cotton, in bales, and whilst in Galveston Bay, from some reason, fire was communicated to the cotton, or to the vessel. The fire was first discovered about five o’clock in the morning. When first seen, it seems to have been well under way. Of a .crew of fifty-six persons, twenty-three were lost; and among the lost was John J. Price, husband of Sarah E. Price, the.…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
The act of February 2,1860, authorizing the heirs, legal representatives, or relations of deceased persons to sue for and recover damages where the death of such persons has been caused or occasioned by the negligent, culpable, or wrongful act of another, as was decided by the majority of the court at its last session at this place, in the case of the Houston and Texas Central R. W. Co. v. Bradley, guardian, is in force and unrepealed by section 30, article 12, of the Constitution of 1869. Appellant’s right to maintain the action must, therefore, be conceded, if an…
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