Webb v. Big Kanawha & O. R. Packet Co.

McWiioRteR, Judge :

This is an action of trespass on the case, brought by Samuel L. Webb at May rules, 1895, in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, against the Big Kanawha & Ohio River Packet Company, to recover damages for personal injury received on the defendant’s steamer T. 1). Bale on or about the 10th of December, 1894, while a passenger on said steamer on the Kanawha river, by the alleged careless and negligent handling by the employees of defendant of a stage plank, which was carelessly and negligently thrown upon one of the plaintiff’s feet, mashing, bruising, and injuring it. The…