Clark v. Steamboat Mound City

This is an action commenced under the statute entitled, “An act to provide for the collection of demands against boats and vessels Digest of 1835, p. 102. Judgment was given for the plaintiif, and the defendant appealed to the court of common pleas. In this last court judgment was given for the appellant, the steamboat, and to reverse it, the cause is brought by appeal to this court.

The complaint is in the words following, to-wit: Tilghman Clark complains, that he has a demand against the steamboat Mound City, amounting to seventy-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents, which demand accrued…