Pittsburgh City v. Grier
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case to April Term, 1849, by David A. Grier and Robert Duncan, owners of the Steamboat Mary Ann, against the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Pittsburgh.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case to April Term, 1849, by David A. Grier and Robert Duncan, owners of the Steamboat Mary Ann, against the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Pittsburgh. It was brought to recover damages for injuries sustained by the sinking of the steamboat Mary Ann, at the wharf in the city of Pittsburgh, in consequence, as was alleged on part of the plaintiffs, of the default of the defendants, in allowing a quantity of pig metal to lie for an unreasonable time upon the landing. The declaration contained two counts. In the first,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, September 28, by
Black, C. J.
The vessel of the plaintiffs below, anchored at the Monongahela wharf, when the water was very low. The river rose afterwards, and the vessel was totally wrecked in consequence, as the plaintiffs allege, of certain piles of pig iron which had been negligently permitted to lie on the wharf, a foot above low-watermark, which became covered by the water as it rose, and which compelled the Mary Ann to back out into the stream, where she *64was struck and stove by some floating body, and sunk across the water log of the wharf, where…
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