Sparks v. Steamer "Kate French"
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 17 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. cited Rev. Stat., chap. 7, sec. 2; Civil Code, sections 46, 125, 153, 341,339, 340. cited Civil Code, secs. 125, 453.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE DUVALL
delivered the opinion of the oodrt:
This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing an action brought by Sparks, in which he sought to subject the steamboat Kate French” to liability for an injury to a flat owned by the plaintiff, alleged to have been committed through the willful, negligent, and wrongful .conduct of the officers and crew of the steamboat.
It was proved on the trial that at the time of the injury complained of, the steamboat had been chartered by the owners to other persons, and that the injury was done by the officers and crew employed on the boat by the charterers,…
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