Scott v. Hunter
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case brought by Joseph Scott, James Burns, and Henry Myers, partners doing business as Scott, Burns & Co., against George Hunter and John McClosky,'to recover the value of two coal-boats, with their cargoes, which the plaintiffs averred were lost through the wilful, malicious, and negligent conduct of defendants.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case brought by Joseph Scott, James Burns, and Henry Myers, partners doing business as Scott, Burns & Co., against George Hunter and John McClosky,'to recover the value of two coal-boats, with their cargoes, which the plaintiffs averred were lost through the wilful, malicious, and negligent conduct of defendants. Under the ruling of the court below there was a verdict and judgment in favour of defendants. Whereupon the plaintiffs sued out this writ, assigning the judgment of the court below for error. The material…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, November 12th 1868, ky
Strong, J.
This was an action of trespass on the ease, brought to recover the value of two coal-boats, with their cargoes, belonging to the plaintiffs, and lost, as they aver, through the unlawful, wilful, malicious,- and negligent conduct of the defendants. The declaration contained two counts, the first of which averred that the defendants had caused the loss of the boats by unlawfully, wilfully, and maliciously mooring their own coal-boats in the channel and entrance to the locks at one of the dams of the *193Monongahela Navigation…
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