District Court, D. Maryland July 1, 1856 (Wallis v. Chesney)

GILES, District Judge.

The facts of this case are as follows: The coal was brought in a canal-boat from Pittston, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, on the canal to Port Deposit; and from that point the canal-boat was towed by a steamboat to Baltimore. It was brought on the canal about two hundred and fifty miles, and on tide-water about forty miles.