Hamilton v. Fulton

We see nothing in this record which will warrant the reversal of this judgment. There is no exception taken to the regularity of the judgment against the defendant Fulton. *360Kimbal being a part owner and present when the injury was done, it was properly left to the jury whether he was a contributor to the wrong done to the barge of the plaintiff. His presence when the first act was done which endangered the barge was a circumstance from which the jury might infer his assent to what was done afterwards, as all the subsequent acts were prompted by the motive which induced the first. At the…