Evansville Veneer & Lumber Co. v. Claybon

This action was brought by the appellee Charles Claybon and in his complaint he charges that on August 15, 1945, the appellant Evansville Veneer & Lumber Company was the owner of a certain river barge which it carelessly and negligently moored on the Indiana shore of the Ohio River about a mile upstream from the Dress Plaza in the city of Evansville, Indiana. That by reason of the careless and negligent manner in which said barge was so moored it broke loose on September 24, 1945, went adrift and floated downstream into and against a motor boat belonging to the appellee which was then tied to…