Case Name: Payne and Harrison v. The Independent Towboat Company
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1852
Citations: 7 La. Ann. 671
Docket Number: 
Parties: Payne and Harrison v. The Independent Towboat Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 671–671

Head Matter:
Payne and Harrison v. The Independent Towboat Company.
Privilege against a steamboat, for cord wood furnished by contract, allowed, under the act of the Legislature of the 15th March, 1842.
APPEAL from the Second District Court of New Orleans, Lea, J.
C. Redmond, for plaintiffs.
Z. Latour, for defendants.

Opinion:
By the court:
Slidell, J.
We think with the district judge, thatthe 3d section of the Act of March 15, 1842, p. 282, conferred a privilege upon the appellee, whose claim was for cord wood, furnished to the steamboat by contract, and not taken against the will of the owner of the wood.
Judgment affirmed, with costs.
Application for re-hearing refused.
The following is the section of the Act cited: Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, SfC., That the claim against steamboat owners for cord wood shall be of the first privilege against steamboats, for and during the term of eight months from the time that such claim accrues, as regards all boats running beyond the limits of the State, and three months for boats running within the limits of the State.