Blass v. Steamboat Robert Campbell
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. John Blass, the appellant, brought suit in the St. Louis Circuit Court, against the steamboat Robert Campbell, under the statute concerning boats and vessels, for damages for injuries done to the appellant.
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Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. John Blass, the appellant, brought suit in the St. Louis Circuit Court, against the steamboat Robert Campbell, under the statute concerning boats and vessels, for damages for injuries done to the appellant. The facts, as presented by the complaint, are substantially as follows : On the 81st day of June, 1851, the.defendant, lying at the port of St. Louis, bound for the mouth of the Yellow Stone river, through one Eads, her master, employed the plaintiff, as a hand, to go to said Yellow Stone and back to St. Louis, for certain wages then agreed upon between…
1Opinion of the CourtRylaND, Judge
From the statement of the case, we are of opinion that the demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition was properly sustained in' the court below. The last clause of the fourth subdivision of the first section of the act concerning boats and vessels, reads : “ and for damages for injuries done to persons or property by such boat or vessel.” The plaintiff contends that the breach of the contract of hiring by the captain, in forcing the boat hand to go ashore, and leaving such hand, is within the clause above quoted. We think not. The clause was designed to' embrace injuries,-in'which the boat was an…
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