Webb v. Read

Judge Ewing

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Oran Webb filed his bill against D. D. McClure and others, as owners of the Steamboat New Ark, all of whom are charged to be non-residents of the State, and against Read and Son, for the purpose of recovering from the owners of the boat $175, which is charged to be due him from them, for advances made to pay expenses on her passage from New Orleans to Louisville, and subjecting a' fund belonging to the owners, in the bands of Read & Son, residents of Louisville, to its payment.

The bill was not sworn to, nor any order asked or made by the…