Steamboat Farmer v. McCraw
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before tbe Hon. A. B. Mooee. This action was commenced in May, 1862, by attachment against the steamboat Farmer, at the suit of Abner Gr. McCraw, to recover damages for injuries done to seventy-eight bales of cotton, belonging to plaintiff, by a collision between said steamboat and a flat-boat on which said cotton was shipped.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before tbe Hon. A. B. Mooee. This action was commenced in May, 1862, by attachment against the steamboat Farmer, at the suit of Abner Gr. McCraw, to recover damages for injuries done to seventy-eight bales of cotton, belonging to plaintiff, by a collision between said steamboat and a flat-boat on which said cotton was shipped. At the fall term, 1862, the plaintiff filed a declaration against Edward E. Shields, Jacob B. "Walker, and Daniel Walker, as owners of the steamboat; but this court, on appeal, at its January term, 1855, held that the…
1Opinion of the Court
NICE, G. J.
— The case of Richardson v. Cleaveland, 5 Porter, 251, furnishes a complete answer'to the argument here made for appellant against the constitutionality of the act of 17th January, 1844, under which the present suit was instituted. If the statutes passed upon in that case were constitutional, as we think they were correctly held to be, the act of 17th January, 1844, is also constitutional ; and upon the authority of that case we hold the act last mentioned free from conflict, either with the constitution of this State, or of the United States.
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