20 Wend. 177 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1838
I am inclined to think that wood or coal furnished a steamboat for her usual trips should be construed as coming within the terms of the statute giving a lien and summary remedy, for the collection of the debt created thereby against ships and vessels, 2 R. S. 493, § 1. The terms of the act are, whenever a debt shall be contracted ct for such provisions and stores, furnished within this state, as may be fit and proper for the use of such vessel,” &c. The word provisions, strictly considered, would be confined to such articles as enter into the food or subsistence for hands and passengers; but stores is a more general term, and may fairly embrace the article in question.
In Johnson v. The Steamboat Sandusky, 5 Wendell, 510, the court would, I think, have embraced wood within the term
Motion denied.