Ward v. Steam Boat Little Red

Opinion of the Court, delivered by

Napton, Judge

This was an action instituted under our statute regulating proceedings against boats and vessels. The statement of th.e plaintiffs’ cause of action is couched in the ordinary form of a declaration in case. This declaration avers, that whereas, the plaintiffs were owners of a certain horse ferry boat and horse gear appurtenant thereto, and the same was used ata certain ferry kept at Rocheport, on the Missouri river, and owned by the complainants. They, the complainants, did, prior to the first of June last, to wit, on the first of February, rent…