Ferry Companies v. White

This is a suit for damages, brought by the defendant in error against the West Memphis. Packet Company and Memphis & Arkansas Ferry Company, the gravamen of the complaint being that while a passenger on the steamboat ‘ ‘ Golden Gate,” operated, as is alleged, by and in the joint interest of plaintiffs in error, owing to the failure of their servants to preserve order and decorum on *258this boat, the defendant in error was severely injured by a shot fired from a gun negligently handled by a fellow passenger. Upon pleas which made issues upon all the material averments in this declaration, a trial…