Baker v. Hoag

Replevin for a quantity of wool. • On the 16th November, 1846, the wool, then owned by Hoag, was on board a canal boat passing down the Hudson, in tow of a steamboat. A collision with another steamboat occurred, by which the canal boat was sunk, and disappeared in the channel of the river. Several days were spent by the defendant and others in unsuccessful efforts to find the boat, and the search was then abandoned ; about two months afterward, the boat was discovered near the centre of the river, and the plaintiff, with several, assistants, after several days’ exertion, attended with some…