Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co v. Lancaster's Administrator

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle.

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Greenup circuit court entered upon a verdict awarding the appellee, C. W. Kidd, as administrator of the estate of Arthur Lancaster, deceased, $1,800.00 damages against the appellant corporation, Monongahela River- Consolidated Coal & Coke Company, for the death of his intestate, alleged to have resulted from the negligence of the appellant’s servants in so.operating its steamboat “Alice Brown” on the Ohio river as to suffer it to collide with and overturn a skiff or “john boat” in which the intestate was…