Worth v. Steam-Boat Lioness No 2.

Tbeat, D. J.

The demands are by mariners, under shipping contracts. The libellants shipped respectively at Pittsburgh and Louisville, without shipping articles or any express statement as to the proposed voyage. All parties knew that the vessel was engaged in towing claimant’s barges from one point on the Ohio river to another point on the same river, and also to different points on the Mississippi river. The vessel, in the course of her voyaging, encountered ice in the Mississippi river and laid up at Bushburg, about 20 miles below St. Louis. As it was uncertain how long she might be…