Gorman v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Case' in Bibb ¡Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers? May Term, 1853. This was an action to> recover the- value of a negro man named London, whom the plaintiff’Gorman had hired to Campbell? the defendant, as a steamboat hand, on the Ocmulgee and Altamaha rivers, and who had been drowned while so hired. The testimony exhibited the' following state of facts r The negro was employed on board the steamboat Sam Jones.
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Case' in Bibb ¡Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers? May Term, 1853. This was an action to> recover the- value of a negro man named London, whom the plaintiff’Gorman had hired to Campbell? the defendant, as a steamboat hand, on the Ocmulgee and Altamaha rivers, and who had been drowned while so hired. The testimony exhibited the' following state of facts r The negro was employed on board the steamboat Sam Jones. It is not customary? on the river, to> employ negroes in the labor of clearing out obstructions, or cutting new passages in the river? unless under circumstances of urgent…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering opinion.
James B. Gorman, the plaintiff in error, as well as in the action in the Gourt below, about the first of January, 1852, hired his boy London to Charles Campbell, the ■ defendant, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to go upon the Ocmulgee and Altamaha rivers, as a boat-hand.
Richard Bishop testifies, that on the nineteenth day of May, 1852, the steamer Sam Jones having been tied up for several days, not being able to ascend the Altamaha, the Captain and white hands were engaged in clearing a new passage for her. The negroes were not enrpldyed in…
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