Castner v. Steamboat Dr. Franklin
Supreme Court of Minnesota
ERROR TO THIS DISTRICT COURT OF RAMSEY COUNTY. The plaintiffs proceeded by attachment against the Steamboat Dr. Franklin, for damages done to logs of the plaintiffs, by the said boat, in a slough near the upper landing, in St. Paul. The canse was tried at the September Term of the said Court, 1851, and a verdict rendered in favor of the plaintiffs for $150 and costs. The defendants sued out a "Writ of Error from this Court.
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ERROR TO THIS DISTRICT COURT OF RAMSEY COUNTY. The plaintiffs proceeded by attachment against the Steamboat Dr. Franklin, for damages done to logs of the plaintiffs, by the said boat, in a slough near the upper landing, in St. Paul. The canse was tried at the September Term of the said Court, 1851, and a verdict rendered in favor of the plaintiffs for $150 and costs. The defendants sued out a "Writ of Error from this Court. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
*74 By the Ooiort
Meekeb, J.
This is a special proceeding pursuant to the act entitled “an Act to provide for the collection of demands against boats and vessels,” found in the Revised Statutes, Laws of "Wisconsin Territory, pages 168-9-70. On the 4th of August, 1851, the plaintiffs below obtained a warrant for the seizure of the boat, which was executed on that day, being based upon a complaint verified by Castner, one of said plaintiff's. It set forth that the plaintiffs were partners, doing business under the name of John M. Castner & Co., that they were lawfully possessed of 48 saw logs, of…
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