Memphis & Ohio River Packet Co. v. McCool
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Vanderburgh Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
The complaint of the appellee alleges that-the appellant is a common carrier of passengers, owning and using, for the purpose of carrying passengers for hire, a steamboat called James D. Parker; that he was received as a pas*393senger on that boat; that while standing near the foot of a stairway used for receiving and discharging passengers and freight the appellant’s servants, engaged in loading a bale of cotton goods of great weight, negligently suffered it to fall from the top of the stairway upon the appellee, seriously bruising and wounding him.
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