Eddy v. O'Hara

This is an action of contract, brought on January 23,1880, in the Second District Court of Bristol, to recover the sum of $60. The Old Colony Steamboat Company, a corporation established by law in this Commonwealth and having a place of business at Fall River, summoned as trustee of the principal defendant, answered that, at the time of the service of the writ upon it, he was employed as a seaman on board one of its steamboats, the City of New Bedford, and it owed him the sum of $36.20, and had no other goods, effects or credits of his in its hands; and that he had since brought suit for all…