The petitioner states that she hired her slave Ben to the owners of the steamboat Mediator for the year 1838 "to be used as a hand or fireman in running said Boat, to be treated with humanity, care and attention & at the end of the year to return said negro to your Oratrix." She claims they "gave him large quantities of intoxicating liquors" and "caused the violent and sudden death of said negro Ben by wilfully causing and permitting a hogshead of tobacco to be rolled over his body." She asks the court to "seize and attach so much of said Boat" as will pay for her losses.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
