Peoria Marine & Fire Insurance v. Walser

The appellee sued the appellant upon a complaint in two paragraphs.

The first paragraph avers that on the 11th day of October, 1859, the appellee was the owner of a certain flat-boat called the “Uo. One,” lying in the Ohio river at the port of Aurora, in Dearborn county, State of Indiana, which was loaded with a cargo of one hundred and forty tons of hay, of the value of 2500 dollars, the property of the appellee: that,the boat, so loaded, was properly manned and equipped for a vojmge to the port of New Orleans, and that afterwards, at that date, at said county and State, the appellant, by A.…