McGrew v. Stone
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny eounty. . This was an action on the case to February Term 1865, brought by James MeGrew and others, trading as McGrrew & Co., against William Stone, for injury done to the plaintiff’s coal-barges by a sunken barge of the defendant, which, it was alleged, had come into collision with the plaintiff's barges through negligence of the defendant in mooring his barge.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny eounty. . This was an action on the case to February Term 1865, brought by James MeGrew and others, trading as McGrrew & Co., against William Stone, for injury done to the plaintiff’s coal-barges by a sunken barge of the defendant, which, it was alleged, had come into collision with the plaintiff's barges through negligence of the defendant in mooring his barge. Early in January 1865, there had been a coal-boat rise of 10 or 12 feet in the- Monongahela river, and on the 10th of that month the defendant had seven barges moored in the river at the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Agnew, J.
This case cannot be well stated without a summary of the facts gathered from the evidence, and the rejected offers assigned now for error. They are about these : The basin in the Monongahela river, opposite the city of Pittsburgh, formed by the slackwater dam above the bridge and the shoals below the city, is filled with shipping; the wharf from the bridge to the point being lined with coal-boats, canal-boats and steamboats, and perhaps some other craft. On the south side of the river, for a mile or more below the bridge, the shore, is…
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