Legal Opinion
The Short Cut
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided March 17, 1881PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Admiralty. Sur Exceptions to the Commissioner’s Deport Distributing Proceeds of Sale.
1Opinion of the Court
Acheson, D. J.
The exceptant, B. H. Palmer, Jr., claims to be paid, out of the proceeds of the sale of the steam-ferryboat Shortcut, $288, “for his services as clerk,” from March 2 to June 23, 1880, and $204.88, the balance of his wages as master, from June 23 to October 6, 1880.
The evidence, however, shows that the exceptant was not a clerk of the boat in any proper 'sense of that, term. During the period covered by that part of his claim the boat was in course of construction. She was built for and owned by the Six-Mile Ferry Company, a corporation. The hull was built under contract by S. P.…
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