Clemmens v. Washington Park Steamboat Co.

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

In May, 1907, the Gloucester Ferry Company, a corporation of New Jersey, owned and operated a line of steamboats that ran between Arch Street wharf in the city of Philadelphia and Washington Park, a place of amusement on the Delaware river. For their own convenience — the exact reason is not important — the ferry company sold tickets between these two points in the name of the “Washington Park Steamboat Company,” and the plaintiff bought and used one of these tickets. She was injured in the course of her excursion, and supposing, as was natural, that such right…