Sekerak v. Jutte
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 53, Oct. T., 1892, by defendants, Charles Jutte et al., from judgment of C. P. No. 8, Allegheny Co., Aug. T., 1891, No. 332, on verdict for plaintiff, Theresa Sekerak. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s husband. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Binding instructions for defendant were refused. [6] Error assigned was, inter alia, (6) instruction, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice McCollum,
Joseph Sekerak was drowned in the Monongahela river on the second of May, 1891, and his widow Theresa Sekerak, claiming that his death was caused by the negligence of the appel*118lant’s servants in the management pf the steamboat “ Charles Jutte,” having in tow six flats and a coal-boat, brought this action to recover the pecuniary value of his life to her. It appears that near six o’clock in the afternoon of the day of the accident, Joseph Sekerak, Mike Tomko and Albert Reggerts, at Coal Bluff on the Washington county side of the river, entered what is known in…
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