Monongahela Bridge Co. v. Kirk
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case brought by Thomas Kirk, against The President and Managers of the Monongahela Bridge Company, to recover damages for the loss of a coal-boat and its cargo, alleged to have been wrecked upon one of the piers of defendants’ bridge.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case brought by Thomas Kirk, against The President and Managers of the Monongahela Bridge Company, to recover damages for the loss of a coal-boat and its cargo, alleged to have been wrecked upon one of the piers of defendants’ bridge. The plaintiff, after reciting the incorporation of the defendants, and the erection of a bridge by them over the river Monongahela ; and that the river was at the time alleged in the narr. a common public highway, navigable for boats, rafts, and other vessels; and that the plaintiff on…
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Read, J.
This case must be reversed, because the answers of the court below to the 4th point of the plaintiff and to the 7th point of the defendant are contradictory, and cannot be so reconciled as to enable us to say that if one is the law the other can stand with it. The jury, therefore, had no clear and definite instruction as to the law upon a point material to the issue they were trying.
Such being the case it becomes material, as this cause must go down to be tried again, to state clearly the principles which should regulate that trial.
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