Jones v. Steamboat Morrisett
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, St. Louis Law Commissioner’s Court. Action against a steamboat begun before a justice of the peace. The account filed is set forth in the opinion of the court. The constable’s return to the warrant stated that the •writ was executed “by going on board the steamboat Morri-sett, and by seizing and attaching, as the property of said boat, the anchor, hawser and tackling of said boat.”
1Opinion of the CourtRyland, Judge
The complaint and the account, with its particulars, filed in this case, is considered by this court as sufficient. It is not liable to the objection taken in the case of Luft v. The Steamboat Envoy, (19 Mo. Rep. 476.)
Here, the particulars show the work and labor done to have been done by him as a “fireman.” Now, in the common course of transactions of this character, an account against a steamboat for work and labor as a fireman, would necessarily imply that the work was done on board of the boat. There was, then, no necessity to state that such work was done “ on the boat” or “on board of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Luft v. Steamboat EnvoySupreme Court of Missouri · 1854
3Cited by1 opinion
- Grant v. Steamboat Maria DenningSupreme Court of Missouri · 1859