Pool v. Steamboat Ray
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Independence Circuit Court. Hon. William C. Bevens, Circuit Judge. That proceedings instituted against a. steamboat by name, should be sustained, referred to Thompson vs. Steamboat Julia D. Morton, 23 Ohio Rep. 26; S. B. Rover vs. Stiles, 5 Black/. Rep. 483; 7 lnd. Rep. 521; 10 Mo. Rep. 583; 6 lb. 552; 14 Ohio Rep. 408.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice English
Pool & Watson, merchants, etc., of Jacksonport, filed an affidavit, (made by Watson before a justice of the peace,) in the office of the-clerk of Independence Circuit Court, stating that the steamboat Thomas P. Ray was indebted to them in the sum of $359 84, for supplies, materials and money furnished the boat, at the request of the then master and owner thereof, Oaty T. Dowell, on and before the 5th day of January, 1856, to enable said boat to pursue her business of carrying goods and passengers upon the navigable waters of this State, etc., ■etc.
They also filed an attachment bond, payable…
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