Ricks v. Yates

Hiram Philips, whose administrator continues the suit, commenced an action against Caspar Ricks, before a justice of the peace, upon a cause of action as follows:

The plaintiff claims of defendant “50 dollars, for service rendered him in the fall of the year 1847, in steering and piloting a flat-boat load of lumber from or near the mouth of Oil- Creek, Perry county, Indiana, thence down the Ohio into the Mississippi river, and down said river, with intent to take her to New-Orleans, as per contract; which said boat the plaintiff was steering and piloting according to contract, until he was…