Wilkinson v. Dalferes

On the twentieth day of May, 1870, the defendant Dalferes, with J. M. Johnston as his surety, chartered the steamboat Right Way from the plaintiffs, to be used by him in the Lafourche trade for the term of four months, at the rate of $800 per month, payable in advance. In the charter party it was expressly agreed that the said boat was tight, staunch and strong and well and .sufficiently tackled and appareled, with all things necessary for such a vessel and the business and trade in which she was to be engaged; that the charterer was to have full control of her, and at the expiration of the…