Gray v. Missouri River Packet Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal ft om Lafayette Circuit Court. Chouteau vs. Steamboat St. Anthony, 20 Mo. 519; Id. 16 Mo. 216; Sto. Bailm. 6th Ed., p. 468, note; Fay vs. Steamer New World, 1 Cal. 348 ; Nelson vs. McIntosh, 1 Stark. 188 ; Beardslee vs. Richardson, 11 Wend. 25 ; Pars. Oont. 586 and notes ; Smithers vs. Steamboat War Eagle, 29 Mo. 312; Ready vs. Steamboat Highland Mary,.17 Mo. 461; Sto.
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Appeal ft om Lafayette Circuit Court. Chouteau vs. Steamboat St. Anthony, 20 Mo. 519; Id. 16 Mo. 216; Sto. Bailm. 6th Ed., p. 468, note; Fay vs. Steamer New World, 1 Cal. 348 ; Nelson vs. McIntosh, 1 Stark. 188 ; Beardslee vs. Richardson, 11 Wend. 25 ; Pars. Oont. 586 and notes ; Smithers vs. Steamboat War Eagle, 29 Mo. 312; Ready vs. Steamboat Highland Mary,.17 Mo. 461; Sto. Bailm. 6th Ed. §§ 173-176, 182 ; Ketchum vs. American Merchants Union Express Co., 52 Mo. 390 ; Read vs. St. L., K. C. & N. R. R. Co., 60 Mo. 166 ; Trans. Co. vs. Traube, 59 Mo. 355 ; Sedgw. Dam. ch. 13 ; Atkinson vs.…
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, Judge
This was an action in which defendant is sought to be charged as a common carrier for transporting a jack, the property of plaintiff, in so careless a manner as to occasion his death. The defendant by way of defense denied negligence as charged, and set up in his answer as a further defense that the shipment of the jack was to be made gratuitously and without compensation, and not for hire.
On the trial plaintiff obtained judgment for $660.30 from ■which defendant has appealed and assigns for error the rejection of evidence and the giving and refusing instructions. Plaintiff, who was…
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