Pendleton v. Kinsley
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island
Case against the defendant [Bufus B. Kins-ley) to recover damages for injuries resulting to the plaintiff [Dewit C. Pendleton] from an assault and battery alleged to have been inflicted upon him by one Charles L. Stan-hope.
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Case against the defendant [Bufus B. Kins-ley) to recover damages for injuries resulting to the plaintiff [Dewit C. Pendleton] from an assault and battery alleged to have been inflicted upon him by one Charles L. Stan-hope. Personal injuries were inflicted on the plaintiff by Charles L. Stanhope, clerk of the steamboat Perry, employed at the time and for many years before in carrying passengers and freight between Newport and Providence, in this district, and he brought action against the defendant, as the owner of the steamer, to recover compensation for the injuries so inflicted while he…
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFFORD, Circuit Justice.
Owners of vessels engaged in carrying passengers assume obligations somewhat different from those whose vessels are employed as common carriers of merchandise. Obligations of the kind in the former case are in some respects less extensive and more qualified than in the latter, as the owners of the vessel carrying passengeis are not insurers of the lives of their passengers, nor even of their safety, but in most other respects the obligations assumed are equally comprehensive and stringent. -Carriers of passengers by land, it was said in one of the early cases, are…
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- Weed v. . the Panama Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1858
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. BlocherCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1867
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