Case ID: ky-op_4/html/0293-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Hardin :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Uriah Shinkle v. City of Covington.
    Damages — Wharfage Regulations — Instructions.
    It is error to submit to the. jury, by instructions, in an action for damages, whether a boat of the plaintiff was moored to defendants wharf “under the wharfage regulations established by the defendant,” without informing the jury what those regulations were.
    APPEAL EROM KENTON CIRCUIT COURT.
    June 8, 1870.
    Fisks, for appellant.
    
    
      Baker & Athey, for appellee.
    
   Opinion oe the Court by

Judge Hardin :

We perceive no valid objection to either of the two instructions which were ashed for plaintiff, and refused by the court, and the error thus committed was not remedied by the action ¡of the court in giving other instructions.

The first instruction given by the court was erroneous in submitting to the jury the question whether the boat of the plaintiff was moored to the defendant’s wharf, “under the wharfage regulations established by the defendant,” without informing the jury what those regulations were. It was also liable to objection as involved, by reference to particular cause of peril to boats moored at the defendant’s wharf. x

We are also of the opinion that the court might properly have granted a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence.

Wherefore the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial consistent with this opinion.