Smith v. Day

BELLINGER, District Judge.

The plaintiff was a passenger on board the boat of The Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Company, lying at a wharf on premises reserved by the government for the locks then in course of construction at the Cascades of the Columbia river. With other passengers en route for Portland, he went upon such boat shortly- before or about the time the contractors in charge of said work began firing blasts in the rock excavations that weré being made, and was struck on the head by a rock from one of the blasts, which crashed through the top of the boat into the forward…