Simmons v. New Bedford, Vineyard & Nantucket Steamboat Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tout for injuries sustained by the plaintiff while a passenger on board the defendants’ steamboat. At the trial in the superior court, before Putnam, J., the " • rial facts appeared as follows: The plaintiff paid for his and took passage on the defendants’ steamboat, August 12,1865, for a trip from. New Bedford to Martha’s Vineyard to attend a Methodist camp-meeting.
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Tout for injuries sustained by the plaintiff while a passenger on board the defendants’ steamboat. At the trial in the superior court, before Putnam, J., the " • rial facts appeared as follows: The plaintiff paid for his and took passage on the defendants’ steamboat, August 12,1865, for a trip from. New Bedford to Martha’s Vineyard to attend a Methodist camp-meeting. The steamboat, which was managed and navigated by the defendants’ servants, was crowded, the whole number of passengers being estimated variously from one thousand to two thousand. Shortly after it left New Bedford, the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
Gray, J.*
This is an, action of tort to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff while a passenger on a steamboat belonging to the defendants and managed and navigated by their servants, from the falling upon his head of a small boat hung on the larboard side and over the lower deck of the steamboat, through the alleged negligence of the defendants and their servants in the manner of hanging this small boat and in not preventing other passengers from getting into it.
The general principles of law by which the liability of the defendants is to be tested are well settled. A carrier…
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