Eyre-Shoemaker Construction Co. v. MacKin

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries received by Joseph Mackin, the appellee, while acting as Captain of a scow for the appellant, the Eyre-Shoemaker Construction Company.

The record presents a number of questions arising under twelve exceptions taken to rulings of the Court upon the admissibility of evidence, and one to the action of the Court upon the twenty-six prayers which were offered by the parties at the' conclusion of the testimony; but in the view which we take of this case it will be sufficient to deal with only a few of them, those involving the application of…