Jackson v. Easton

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The libel alleges that the libellant, owning a canal boat, let her to the respondents for a voyage from New York to Baltimore and back, they to pay him for her use five dollars per day for every dáy she should be so employed, and to furnish, at their own expense, the necessary and proper steam or motive power to tow the boat safely and properly during the voyage; that the respondents sent a tug then owned or employed by them to take the boat in tow; that the tug did so; that, while the boat was in tow of the tug, the boiler of the tug exploded, and caused the boat…