Harrod v. Woodruff

This is an action to recover a balance due on an account for work and labor done, and materials furnished in repairing the steam boat Caspian, belonging to the defendants. After a general denial of indebtedness, the owners of the Caspian *336allege, that the plaintiffs, who are shipwrights, undertook and agreed to repair their boat for $1600, and they annex to their answer the contract entered into between them to that effect. They aver that the plaintiffs, in making the repairs, acted so negligently, and provided such defective ways, that the boat fell to the ground, and was thereby so much…