Hunt v. Hoboken Land & Improvement Co.
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal by defendants from a judgment entered on a verdict of a jury. This was an action to recover damages for an injury occasioned to tbe Manhattan, tbe plaintiffs’ steamboat, by a collision with tbe James Rumsey, tbe defendants’ ferryboat. Tbe Manhattan is a Hudson river steamboat. On the 13tb of June, 1853, she left ber pier at tbe foot of Robinson street, and proceeded up tbe North River. About Canal street it met tbe.
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Appeal by defendants from a judgment entered on a verdict of a jury. This was an action to recover damages for an injury occasioned to tbe Manhattan, tbe plaintiffs’ steamboat, by a collision with tbe James Rumsey, tbe defendants’ ferryboat. Tbe Manhattan is a Hudson river steamboat. On the 13tb of June, 1853, she left ber pier at tbe foot of Robinson street, and proceeded up tbe North River. About Canal street it met tbe. James Rumsey, the defendants’ ferryboat, crossing from Hobo-ken to New York city. Their courses, if continued, would cross each other at right angles. As the boats were…
1Opinion of the Court
Beady, J. —
Tbe first point presented by tbe appellants is not sustained by tbe objection taken on tbe trial. There was no objection to tbe testimony of tbe witness on tbe ground that be was not an expert, or that there was no evidence of bis capacity as such. Tbe objection was, that there was no evidence to show that be was acquainted with tbe course of tbe ferryboats,- and thereupon, to meet it, tbe witness was interrogated as to that course, and answered that be was acquainted with it. The objection was then overruled by the presiding judge. That was, perhaps, unnecessary, inasmuch as tbe…
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