Stein v. Steamboat Prairie Rose

The original suit in this case was brought February 15, 1864, in the Superior Court of Cincinnati, under the provisions of the water-craft law of this state, against the steamboat Prairie Bose, to recover for the hire of the barge Mary Jane, from January 2 to July 22, 1863, at ten dollars a day, amounting to $2,020.

The defendant answered, denying the allegations in the petition; and, among other defenses, set up that the barge was hired by the-owners of the steamboat in August, 1862, to accompany the boat from Cincinnati to Evansville, Indiana; that the barge was left there in September of…