Hill v. Wright, Williams & Co.

In 1853, the steamboat D. S. Stacy was attached in New Orleans in several suits for violation of contracts of affreightment, and to relieve her from seizure, Ezra Hill and James Yaughan, part owners of the boat, procured Wright, Williams & Co. and Frellson to enter into the bonds required by the Louisiana laws. Judgments were entered against the boat and owners, in the district courts of New Orleans, and upon appeal bonds being given by the same sureties, suspensive appeals were allowed against the judgments, which, in due course of legal proceeding, were affirmed in the Supreme Court of…