The Manhasset
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. W. H. Black, whose administratrix, Frances Black, brings this libel, was a colored man, 64 years old, who had irregular employment in the United States navy yard, at Gosport, opposite Norfolk.
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In Admiralty. W. H. Black, whose administratrix, Frances Black, brings this libel, was a colored man, 64 years old, who had irregular employment in the United States navy yard, at Gosport, opposite Norfolk. He came upon the ferry-boat Manhasset, to cross the harbor to Norfolk, on the eighteenth of March, 1881. As the boat was about to touch her landing on the Norfolk side, and while it was 18 inches off, he stepped one foot upon the float, which slipped, and he fell, his other foot being caught by the boat as it came up to the float, and crushed. The wound was so severe that he died from it…
1Opinion of the CourtHughes, J.
An important and difficult question of jurisdiction presents itself at the threshold of this case, a question not yet settled, and which has been much confused by contradictory decisions. As requested by counsel, I will give to it an original consideration. The libel is founded on a statute of Virginia,, similar to statutes on .the same subject in most of the states, which overturns the common-law doctrine that actions and rights of action, for personal injuries, (torts.) die with the person injured; and provides that whore a person who would bo entitled to damages for an injury inflicted by…
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