Ridgley v. Steamboat Reindeer
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action against the steamboat Reindeer to recover the value of a slave alleged to have been transported out of this state in said steamboat. Judgment by default was rendered against the steamboat. This default the court refused to set aside. I. The court should have set aside the' default and permitted the defence to be made, and should have set aside the final judgment and permitted an answer and a regular trial.
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Appeal from, St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action against the steamboat Reindeer to recover the value of a slave alleged to have been transported out of this state in said steamboat. Judgment by default was rendered against the steamboat. This default the court refused to set aside. I. The court should have set aside the' default and permitted the defence to be made, and should have set aside the final judgment and permitted an answer and a regular trial. The discretion of the courts in the matter of setting aside defaults must be exercised in a reasonable manner. The…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
This suit was brought on the 10th September, 1856, on a cause of action alleged to have accrued on the 14th September, 1855. The forty-second section of the act concerning boats and vessels, in force when this suit was brought, required all suits upon liens given by the act, except those enumerated in the first class (of which this was not one), to be commenced (in St. Louis county) within six months. Before this law took effect, twelve months were allowed for suits of this character. The question is, whether the forty-second section of the act of 1856 applied to this case.
It is very clear…
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