Louisville & Jeffersonville Ferry v. Nolan

The amended complaint in this action is in two paragraphs, for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the appellee, while aboard the defendant’s ferry boat, “Shall Cross,” in the Ohio river, at Jeffersonville. The specific acts of negligence charged in the first paragraph, among others, are that the appellant failed to make the temporary stanchion, erected on the boat, secure, and that its servants caused the stage plank to come in violent contact with it, knocking it down and thereby striking and injuring the appellee. The negligence attributed to the appellant in…