Legal Opinion
The Almatia
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided November 12, 1868Published
In admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
DEADY, District Judge.
This is a suit in rem for seaman’s wages. The defence set up in the answer is desertion and disobedience of orders, whereby the libellants forfeited their wages. The material facts are as follows: The libellants, George Mills, Albert Miller, Prank Stizleye, Neis. Nelson, William Nelson, Henry Nelson, Howell Lewis and John Lewis, between the fourteenth and twentieth of August, 1868, shipped as seamen on the Almatia, then lying at the port of San Francisco, for a voyage to the port of Portland-on-Wallamet, and thence back to the port of departure. The bark sailed from San…
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