First National Bank v. Stewart

The plaintiff seeks -to recover of the defendant the amount of certain moneys advanced to Captain Moore of the schooner Bermuda, which went ashore near Marquette, in November, 1869. The money was needed in order to-pay the men and enable the master to save what he could from the schooner after being wrecked. The defendant was owner of the schooner, but on the ninth of the month she had been chartered to Eber Ward by the following-instrument:

“It is this day mutually agreed between William Stewart, of the city of Detroit, Michigan, and owner of the schooner Bermuda, of the port of Detroit,…