Flint River Steamboat Co. v. Foster
Supreme Court of Georgia
Summary process against the Elint River Steamboat Company, decided by Judge Warren, in Decatur Superior Court, June Term, 1848. The facts are sufficiently incorporated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
The General Assembly of this State, on the 11th day of December, 1841, passed an Act “ to give to all persons employed in steamboats and other water-craft on the Chattahoochee, Altamaha, and Ocmulgee livers, a lien on said steamboats or watercraft, for his, her, or their wages, and for wood and provisions furnished, and to point out and facilitate the mode of the collection of the same. (Pamphlet Laws of 1841, p. 167.) Section 1 declares " that from, and immediately after the passage of said act, all persons employed either as captain, pilot,…
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