Brown v. Emerson

Emerson, the defendant, chartered from Brown the steamer Monongahela, and agreed to run her three trips a week for two months, to and from Quincy, Illinois. He also agreed to re*104turn the boat in as good order as she was when he got her, and acknowledged that she was in good repair at the time he made the contract. He returned the boat, but Brown alleges that she was injured and damaged, so that it took repairing to the amount of one hundred dollars to have her in as good repair as when Emerson first got her. Emerson paid the sum of twenty-five dollarsi on a bill of work for the repairs,…