Bryant v. Rich
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tobt by a passenger on the steamboat Eastern Queen against her owners, for personal injuries sustained by him upon a passage on that boat from Boston in this Commonwealth to Gardiner in the state of Maine, September 12, 1868. Writ dated December 18, 1868. Three of the defendants were citizens of Maine, one of Missouri, and the other five defendants and the plaintiff citizens of Massachusetts.
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Tobt by a passenger on the steamboat Eastern Queen against her owners, for personal injuries sustained by him upon a passage on that boat from Boston in this Commonwealth to Gardiner in the state of Maine, September 12, 1868. Writ dated December 18, 1868. Three of the defendants were citizens of Maine, one of Missouri, and the other five defendants and the plaintiff citizens of Massachusetts. " The declaration alleged that the defendants, being under the obligation, towards the plaintiff, of common carriers ot passengers, in respect to said passage, “ so carelessly, negligently and improperly…
1Opinion of the Court
Chapman, O. J.
The defendants were carriers of passengers upon their steamboat, and the plaintiff was a passenger paying fare and having the ordinary rights of passengers. The steward and some of the table waiters wrongfully knocked him down and maltreated him.
The case thus presented differs in one respect from that of Howe v. Newmarch, 12 Allen, 49, for in that case the plaintiff was a stranger both to the master and the servant. But here the plaintiff is entitled to all the rights which he deri ved fi om the contract of the defendants as carriers. The implied contract differs in some…
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