Ince v. East Boston Ferry Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for .personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in a collision of the defendants’ steam ferry boat with a sail boat in the harbor of Boston, on October 16, 1868, alleged to have been caused by the defendants’ negligence. The answer alleged negligence on the part of the plaintiff.
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Tort for .personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in a collision of the defendants’ steam ferry boat with a sail boat in the harbor of Boston, on October 16, 1868, alleged to have been caused by the defendants’ negligence. The answer alleged negligence on the part of the plaintiff. At the trial in the superior court, before Reed, J., the plaintiff’s evidence tended to show “ that the plaintiff, at the time of the collision, was in a Whitehall boat, eighteen feet long, arranged for oars and sails and then under sail, belonging to his step-son, Columbus Barry, who was also on board, and…
1Opinion of the CourtGuay, J.
The evidence introduced at the trial tended to show that the plaintiff and the other man in charge with him of his boat were well acquainted with the harbor, and knew the situation of the defendants’ docks or slips, and the usual track between them of the ferry boats, each of which ran every five or six minutes ; that the plaintiff’s boat, while crossing the usual track of the ferry boats about midway at right angles, was struck by one of the ferry boats and upset; that the plaintiff at the time did not think of the fact that he was in the usual track of the ferry boats; that his companion,…
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