Miller v. Delaware River Transportation Co.

*701The opinion, of the court was delivered, by

Kalisch, J.

The appellant appeals from a judgment obtained against it by the plaintiff for damages sustained by him as a result of falling into a hole made by the temporary removal of a plank, in the appellant’s wharf at Burlington. The plaintiff was a huckster, and on the day he received his injuries was expecting a consignment of fruit shipped on one of the defendant’s steamboats from Philadelphia to Burlington. It was in the month of February and the weather was very cold and the plaintiff drove his horse and wagon to the wharf to receive the…