Samuel Blatchford

“ Louis to New Orleans a quantity of wheat, 'the dangers of the river, fire and collision only excepted;' that it loaded a part of the wheat on the barge Sallie Pearce, which it took in two by its tow-boat John Means; and that, by negligent navigation on the part of the Babbage Company, the barge broke away from the tow-boat, and was allowed to drift down the river until she brought up aa inst a steam-boat which was lying at rest along the bank on the Missouri side of the river, and was broken and crushed, so that some of the wheat was lost in the river and some of it was damaged by water. ”

“ The defendants then put in a plea to that part of the bill which relates to the transfer of the property, and ask for relief by a lien and an injunction, denying the fraud, and alleging the bona fides of the transaction. ”