An eye case in the courts / by C.A. Robertson.

  • Robertson, Charles A. (Charles Archibald), 1829-1880.
Date:
1873
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Credit: An eye case in the courts / by C.A. Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    John C. Tinney agt. The New Jersey Steamboat Company. The following is one of a series of cases in practice contained in a paper presented to the New York State Medical Society at the last meeting, February, 1873, and it is one that lias become somewhat noted in law as the case of John C. Tinney against the New Jersey Steamboat Company. The action was commenced by plaintiff for alleged damages in the sum of $15,000 for impairment of sight, the result of alleged injury received on the Hudson river steamboat, Dean Richmond. Tinney, a man about twenty-eight years old, called to consult me the 24th September, 1867, at the instance of his family physician, Dr. Witbeck of West Troy. He complained' of great indistinctness of vision, which he referred to an injury on the brow done by a slat of a steamboat berth, breaking under the weight of an occu- pant above him, as the boat struck the pier forcibly when arriving at Albany on the morning of April 21st, ult. The broken extremity, he said, struck him over the left eye and held him impaled until the person above him got out of his berth. He said that the wound bled, and blood settled all around the eye and the lids were afterward swollen shut, but that the eyeball itself was not struck. At tlie time of consulting me, he said that