Hughes v. Lee

The plaintiff, who is a shipwright, sues to recover the sum of $1160, for having furnished his blocks and falls, chains, a hulk, &c., for the purpose of raising the steam boat Campté, which was sunk in the Mississippi river, above Baton Rouge. He states, also, that the said articles were much damaged ; and that on the return of the hulk, he was obliged to moor it, and get the blocks and falls on shore. The account which he files with his petition, is approved by the then master of the boat, who obtained the articles from him, in the absence of the owners, and who used them for the purpose of…