Knickerbocker Steamboat Co. v. Cusack
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The defendant in the court below brings this writ of error to review a judgment for the plaintiff entered upon the verdict of a jury in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff was a passenger on board the excursion steamer General Slocum, belonging to the defendant, on an excursion trip from Paterson, N. J., to Rockaway Beach and return. There was some fighting on the boat, in the course of which plaintiff was assaulted. The mate of the Slocum separated the parties, put the plaintiff’s assailant and some other persons in the hold, and, when the steamboat arrived at Rockaway Beach, pointed plaintiff out and directed a police officer to arrest him. The officer took plaintiff to the magistrate’s court at Far Rockaway, where the…
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