Grant v. Steamboat Maria Denning
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Law Commissioner’s Court. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. I. It is not in contemplation of the law to give a lien upon a boat unless the work was actually rendered on board the same. (See Blass v. The Robert Campbell, 16 Mo. 266; Jones v. Steamboat Morrisett, 21 Mo. 142.) I. The court committed no error in refusing to dismiss.
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Appeal from St. Louis Law Commissioner’s Court. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. I. It is not in contemplation of the law to give a lien upon a boat unless the work was actually rendered on board the same. (See Blass v. The Robert Campbell, 16 Mo. 266; Jones v. Steamboat Morrisett, 21 Mo. 142.) I. The court committed no error in refusing to dismiss. (2 Pick. 267, 232 ; 19 Pick. 349, 528 ; 12 Mete. 286 ; Sedg. on Dam. 216, 223 ; 8 Georg. 190 j 25 Term. 206 ; 11 Term. 273 ; 2 Swan, 605 ; 9 Gill, 288.)
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
This was a suit against the boat for wages for one trip as fireman, at the rate of thirty-five dollars per month. It ap.peared that the master of the boat shipped the plaintiff at St. Louis for a trip to New Orleans and back at thirty-five dollars per month. About fifteen or twenty miles below St. Louis the plaintiff was put ashore for the alleged reason that the boat had too many men. The trip lasted twenty-seven days ; during which time the plaintiff got employment elsewhere for about eight or nine days. A motion to dismiss the suit was made on the ground of a variance between the proof and…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Emerson v. HowlandU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1816
- Blass v. Steamboat Robert CampbellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1852
- Luft v. Steamboat EnvoySupreme Court of Missouri · 1854
- Jones v. Steamboat MorrisettSupreme Court of Missouri · 1855
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- Worth v. Steam-Boat Lioness No 2.District Court, E.D. Missouri · 1880