Johnson v. Castleman

Judge Nicholas

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This was an action on the case, brought by Johnson, against Castleman and Ormsby, in which he charges, that whilst his flat boat, laden with a cargo of flour, was floating down the Ohio river, a steam boat, owned by the defendants, and of which Castleman was the master, through the carelessness, negligence and bad guidance of said Castleman, struck his flat boat, with such force, that it was broke and sunk, and the cargo spoiled.

On the trial of the general issue,-the plaintiff proved, that he was floating down the Ohio, at night, in his flat…