Hall & Co. v. Renfro
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
.CASE 14 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL FROM KNOX CIRCUIT COURT. This is an action by Hall & Co. against Renfro as the keeper of a public ferry across Cumberland river, to recover the price of a jack drowned at said ferry whilst it, with á lot of such animals of plaintiffs, was being ferried across the river in a boat of the defendant.
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.CASE 14 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL FROM KNOX CIRCUIT COURT. This is an action by Hall & Co. against Renfro as the keeper of a public ferry across Cumberland river, to recover the price of a jack drowned at said ferry whilst it, with á lot of such animals of plaintiffs, was being ferried across the river in a boat of the defendant. Verdict and judgment were rendered for the defendant and the plaintiffs appeal. cited Civil Code, sections 651, 671 ; Coburn vs. Barrett, MS. opin., Winter Term, 1857 ; School, er vs. Schooler, MS. opin'., June, 1857 ; Edwards on Bailments, 441, 566-7 ; 2 Dana,…
1Opinion of the Court
■JUDGE DUVALL
delivered the opinion op the court: ,
The court below did not err in excluding the deposition of . Brasfield. It appears that an exception to that deposition had ■been taken and sustained more than two years prior to the trial. No leave of the court had been obtained, or even asked, to have the certificate amended. But, without the knowl*53edge of the defendant, and without authority from the court, the deposition was withdrawn from the papers, sent to a distant State, where an amendment of the certificate seems to have been attempted, and was then placed among the papers of the…
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