Case Name: McGREGOR, ET. AL. v ROGERS AND KILGORE
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1834-05
Citations: 1 Wright 582
Docket Number: 
Parties: McGREGOR, ET. AL. v ROGERS AND KILGORE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases at law and in chancery, decided by the Supreme court of Ohio, during the years 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834.
Volume: 1
Pages: 600–601

Head Matter:
McGREGOR, ET. AL. v ROGERS AND KILGORE.
Negligence — sinking boat — excuse.
Where the defendants’ boat was negligently run upon a boat of the plaintiffs” which she sunk, it is no excuse that the plaintiffs’ boat might have been more safely moored in some other place,
The imprudence of the plaintiff, in placing his property in an exposed place, - affords no authority to the defendant to destroy the property so exposed.
Case against the defendants as owners of the Lady Franklin steamboat, for negligently running foul of a flat boat of the plaintiffs’, and sinking her. (See the case 5 O. 310). Plea, not guilty.
Fox and Storer for plaintiff.
King and N. Wright contra.

Opinion:
*LANE, J.
to the jury. If you are satisfied that the de- [583 fendants' boat negligently run foul of the flat of the plaintiffs, they •are entitled to a verdict to the extent of the injury. It is not disputed but the Lady Franklin did run foul of the flat and sunk it with the cargo, for which the plaintiffs, the carriers, have had to pay. If the injury was occasioned by the careless act of the defendants, it is no excuse to show that it would have been more prudent and proper for the owners of the flat to have moored the flat in some other place. It would be most prudent in your streets to walk on the side walks, yet if I took the less prudent course and walked in the middle of the street, I am indeed more exposed to harm, but it confers no right upon a man passing with a carriage negligently to drive over me.
Verdict and judgment for plaintiffs, for $1,740.