Case Name: Hamilton, Respondent, v. Fulton et al., Appellants
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1859-03
Citations: 28 Mo. 359
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hamilton, Respondent, v. Fulton et al., Appellants.
Judges: The other judges concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 28
Pages: 359–360

Head Matter:
Hamilton, Respondent, v. Fulton et al., Appellants.
1. Judgment affirmed.
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas.
Krum Sf Harding, for appellants.
Hitchcock, for respondent.

Opinion:
Scott, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
We see nothing in this record which will warrant the reversal of this judgment. There is no exception taken to the regularity of the judgment against the defendant Fulton. Kimbal being a part owner and present when the injury was done, it was properly left to the jury whether he was a contributor to the wrong done to the barge of the plaintiff. His presence when the first act was done which endangered the barge was a circumstance from which the jury might infer his assent to what was done afterwards, as all the subsequent acts were prompted by the motive which induced the first. At the instance of Kimbal the jury was instructed that there would be no recovery against him for any wrongful act of the defendant Fulton without his knowledge and consent. Seeing no error in the instructions which affected the defendant; and the jury having found that he participated in the wrong done to the plaintiff, the judgment will be affirmed.
The other judges concur.