Harrington v. Edwards

By the Court,

Dixon, C. J.

Action commenced before a justice of the peace of the county of Winnebago, for wrongfully untying and setting .adrift some rafts of pine saw logs, the property of the plaintiff, which were secured upon the waters of the Fox river, a navigable stream, at the city of Oshkosh. Defense, that the defendant was a boatman, having boats and vessels which he used in the navigation of the river, and was possessed of a wharf adjacent thereto, at which he was accus*587tomed to load and unload bis boats and vessels, and tbat on tbe day named in tbe complaint be was navigating tbe…