Butts v. Cuthbertson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Motion to quash Fi. Fa. in Baker Superior Court. Decided by Judge Warren, January, 1849. The plaintiff and other creditors sued out and foreclosed their liens upon the steamboat Magnolia, under the Statute of 1841, giving to certain persons therein named, a lien upon steamboats and other water-craft, for provisions and wood furnished, and services rendered on board any steamboat or other water-craft, while engaged in the navigation of certain rivers therein named.
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Motion to quash Fi. Fa. in Baker Superior Court. Decided by Judge Warren, January, 1849. The plaintiff and other creditors sued out and foreclosed their liens upon the steamboat Magnolia, under the Statute of 1841, giving to certain persons therein named, a lien upon steamboats and other water-craft, for provisions and wood furnished, and services rendered on board any steamboat or other water-craft, while engaged in the navigation of certain rivers therein named. (For the provisions of this Statute, see preceding case. See also, Flint River Steamboat Go. vs. Foster, 5 Ga. R. 197.) The…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
The Legislature, in 1841, passed an Act, which declares that “ All persons employed either as captain, pilot, engineer, first or second mate, fireman, deck-hand or in any other capacity whatsoever, on all steamboats and other-water craft engaged in the navigation of the Chattahoochee, Altamaha and' Ocmulgee rivers, for any debt, dues, wages or demands, which he, she or they may have against the owner or owners of said steamboat, or other water-craft, for personal services done, rendered or performed on board the same, and for wood and provisions,…
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