Luft v. Steamboat Envoy
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Law Commissioner*s Court. Action against a steamboat, commenced before a justice of the peace, and appealed to the law commissioner’s court.
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Error to St. Louis Law Commissioner*s Court. Action against a steamboat, commenced before a justice of the peace, and appealed to the law commissioner’s court. The complaint filed with the justice, and verified by affidavit, was as follows : “Henry Luft complains that he has a demand against the steamboat Envoy, a boat used in navigating the waters of this state, amounting to one dollar and eighty cents, which demand accrued against the said steamboat, on account of the mate thereof, for services as laborer, within the thirty days next preceding the commencement of this suit, and is, in all…
1Opinion of the CourtGamble, Judge
1. The act concerning boats and vessels makes certain classes of demands liens, and authorizes proceedings against boats for their collection. The first class comprehends demands £ £ for wages due to hands or persons employed on board the boat or vessel, for work done or services performed on board the same.”
When a suit is instituted against a boat upon a demand for labor, whether the suit be before a justice of the peace or before a court, it should appear by the demand, as filed, that the same is a lien which, under the statute, is to be enforced against the boat. In the present case, the…
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