Fischer v. Camden Ferry Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT.OF COMMON PLEAS NO 1 OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 226 July Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 861 June Term 1886, C. P. No. 1. On June 29, 1886, Dominikus Fischer and Mary, his wife, brought an action on the ease against the Camden & Philadelphia Steamboat Ferry Co., to recover damages for the death of their son, claimed to have been caused by the gross negligence of the defendant company’s servants. Issue.
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ERROR TO THE COURT.OF COMMON PLEAS NO 1 OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 226 July Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 861 June Term 1886, C. P. No. 1. On June 29, 1886, Dominikus Fischer and Mary, his wife, brought an action on the ease against the Camden & Philadelphia Steamboat Ferry Co., to recover damages for the death of their son, claimed to have been caused by the gross negligence of the defendant company’s servants. Issue. At the trial on May 8, 1888, the following facts were made to appear in the plaintiffs’ case: On August 9,1885, Adolph Fischer, tbe plaintiffs’ son, then about…
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Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson:
We are asked in this case to reconsider and overrule Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company v. Adams, 89 Pa. 31, where it was held that “ a row-boat is not within the steering and sailing rules embodied in the navigation laws of the United States, and a steamer is not bound to change her course for such a boat.”
The rule referred to is as follows: “ Every steam vessel when approaching another vessel, so as to involve risk of collision, shall slacken her speed, or, if necessary, stop or reverse: ” Rule 21, § 4233, Rev. St. of the United States. The meaning of…
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