Galena, Dunleith & Minnesota Packet Co. v. Vandergrift
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. The following instructions, asked for by appellants, were given: 1. If the jury find from the evidence that, by the customs of the upper Mississippi river navigation in regard to steamboats, at the time of collision the Royal Arch was in a place where she was entitled to run as an ascending vessel, and that she was on the eastern side of the channel that runs down on the Iowa side when the Empire City came in sight; that the pilot…
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. The following instructions, asked for by appellants, were given: 1. If the jury find from the evidence that, by the customs of the upper Mississippi river navigation in regard to steamboats, at the time of collision the Royal Arch was in a place where she was entitled to run as an ascending vessel, and that she was on the eastern side of the channel that runs down on the Iowa side when the Empire City came in sight; that the pilot of the Royal Arch signalled for the starboard at a proper distance, and continued her course on the eastern side of…
1Opinion of the CourtBates, Judge
The plaintiff was the owner of a steamboat called the Boyal Arch, and the defendants were the owners of another boat called the Empire City. These boats, while running in the Mississippi river, (the Empire City descending and the Boyal Arch ascending,) came in collision, by which the Boyal Arch was sunk. The plaintiff brought this suit to recover the damage sustained by them, charging that the loss was occasioned by the carelessness, negligence and want of skill of the agents and servants of the defendants, then in charge of the Empire City.
The defendants put in issue these allegations. There…
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