Stokes v. Saltonstall
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland. The defendant in error, Francis W. Saltonstall, in September,1836, instituted an action for the recovery of damages against Richard C. Stockton and William B. Stokes, owners of a line of stages for carrying passengers-from Baltimore to Wheeling; Mr. Saltonstall ■ and his wife having on the 6th day' of December, 1836, been passengers in the stage, when, by the carelessness, unskilfulness, and…
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IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland. The defendant in error, Francis W. Saltonstall, in September,1836, instituted an action for the recovery of damages against Richard C. Stockton and William B. Stokes, owners of a line of stages for carrying passengers-from Baltimore to Wheeling; Mr. Saltonstall ■ and his wife having on the 6th day' of December, 1836, been passengers in the stage, when, by the carelessness, unskilfulness, and default of the driver, the stage,was upset; by reason of which Mrs. Saltonstall had her hip fractured, and several other…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr- Justice Barbour
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the fourth circuit, and district óf Maryland.
It was an action on thd, case, brought by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in error,.arid Richard C. Stockton, to recover damages for an injury sustained by his wife, by the upsetting of a stage coach in which she was a passenger, and of which said Stockton and Stokes were the proprietors. The suit was brought in the name of Saltonstall alone; but there is in the record an agreement signed'by the…
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