Kenova Transportation Co. v. Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co.

MilleR, Judge:

The defendant in error, Kenova Transportation Company, instituted its action in the circuit court of Wayne county, against the plaintiff in error, Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, and filed its declaration therein, alleging, in substance, that on the 30th day of May, 1901, it was the owner of a certain wharfboat at the town of Kenova, in the county of Wayne, and then had the same moored in a safe, proper and secure manner at the wharf at the usual and custojnary place at the said town of Kenova on the Ohio River; that the defendant company, on the day and…