U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana July 1, 1853 (Spalding v. Baton Rouge)

McCALEB, District Judge,

in delivering the-opinion of the court, stated substantially that Spalding & Rogers alleged that they were owners of a barge or vessel, called the Floating Palace, which they caused to be enrolled and licensed under the acts of congress, for a term not yet expired, as a coasting vessel; that they employed it for their lawxA business on the river; and that when they were