Brown v. French
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ekeok to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 105. Case, by Margaret J. French, widow of William French, deceased, for herself and for Jennie French and Ella M. French, minor children of said William French, deceased, against Samuel S. Brown and others, partners, doing business under the name of William II.
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Ekeok to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 105. Case, by Margaret J. French, widow of William French, deceased, for herself and for Jennie French and Ella M. French, minor children of said William French, deceased, against Samuel S. Brown and others, partners, doing business under the name of William II. Brown, to recover damages for the death of said William French, caused, as alleged, by the negligence of the defendants’ servants. On the trial, before Collxee, J., the following facts appeared : On November 28th 1878, the said William…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
From the evidence on part of the plaintiff below we gather the following facts. On the morning of the 28th of October, 1878 the steamer Charlie Brown, owned by the defendants below, with a tow of seven boats, was about to ascend a somewhat-swift and narrow part of the Ohio river, a little above the borough of Sewickley, called the trap. Some fifty or seventy-live yards in advance of this craft was the steamboat Ben Wood, which had already reached the swift water, and was exerting her full power in order to gain the head of the ripple. The Brown seems to have been using only steam enough to…
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