McCall's Ferry Power Co. v. Price
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Talbot County (Pearce, C. J., Adictns and Crothers, JJ.), where there was a judgment on verdict for the plaintiff for $12,500. Plaintiff's 1 st Prayer. — If the jury find from the evidence that on the twenty-third day of August, 1906, the plaintiff, Price, was in the employ of the defendant, The McCall Ferry Power Company, and that the said defendant owned at Port Deposit, Maryland, a plant or certain machinery for unloading sand barges and…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Talbot County (Pearce, C. J., Adictns and Crothers, JJ.), where there was a judgment on verdict for the plaintiff for $12,500. Plaintiff's 1 st Prayer. — If the jury find from the evidence that on the twenty-third day of August, 1906, the plaintiff, Price, was in the employ of the defendant, The McCall Ferry Power Company, and that the said defendant owned at Port Deposit, Maryland, a plant or certain machinery for unloading sand barges and that in the construction and operation of said plant a considerable number of men were employed, and that for the…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The defendant (appellant) was engaged during the summer of 1906, in the erection of a dam across the Susquehanna river, at McCall’s Ferry, in Pennsylvania, and in order to secure the sand needed it decided to get it from the Chesapeake bay, and to convey it in scows as far as possible up the river and then by cars to McCall’s Ferry. This plan necessitated the devising of some means of transferring the sand from the scows to the cars, and accordingly the defendant sent its superintendent, John B. Coates, to Port Deposit to erect the necessary plant for that purpose. The contrivance finally…
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