Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. v. Walts
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Floyd Circuit Court; William C-. TJiz, Judge. Action by Jesse Walts against tbe Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtIbach, J.
The only question of importance presented in this appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict. The action was against appellant to recover damages for personal- injuries received by appellee while in appellant’s employ as a deckhand or fleetman, on appellant’s steamboat Harry Brown, which was towing a fleet *236of empty barges up the Ohio River from Cairo, Illinois, to Louisville, Kentucky. The fleet was driven to the Kentucky shore opposite Evansville, Indiana by a storm, and appellee, when going down a ladder let down from a barge and carrying a coil of rope to the shore to…
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