The Annie L. Vansciver
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. These two libels, heard together by consent of parties, as they depend upon the same state of facts, are to recover for injuries received by the libel-ants on April 11, 1907, while passengers on the ferry steamer Annie L. Vansciver plying on the waters of Hampton. Roads between Ivy Avenue Pier, Newport News, Va., and Pine Beach, or Sewell’s Point, Va., one of the landings for the Jamestown Exposition.
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In Admiralty. These two libels, heard together by consent of parties, as they depend upon the same state of facts, are to recover for injuries received by the libel-ants on April 11, 1907, while passengers on the ferry steamer Annie L. Vansciver plying on the waters of Hampton. Roads between Ivy Avenue Pier, Newport News, Va., and Pine Beach, or Sewell’s Point, Va., one of the landings for the Jamestown Exposition. The libelants are carpenters, and at the time of the accident lived on the Newport News side of the Roads, and were employed at the Jamestown Exposition, which necessitated their…
1Opinion of the CourtWaddill, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Many acts of negligence and want of proper care for the libelants as passengers are charged against the respondents, and, likewise, the respondents aver that the libelants were negligent in many respects contributing to tlieir own injury, and should not on that account recover; and on these issues thus joined between the parties considerable testimony, as well of passengers upon the vessel as of the libelants and officers and crew of the steamer, was taken orally before the court, in which there is much conflict, though on the crucial questions affecting…
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