Coffin v. Storer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
In this case, the parties agreed to a statement of facts, on which the right of the plaintiffs to recover was submitted to the opinion of the Court, without regard to the form of the action.
1Opinion of the Court
The cause stood over to this term, when the opinion of the Court was delivered as follows by
Parsons, C. J.
[After reciting the facts.] How far is the defendant chargeable on the charter-party? is the first question. And it seems very clear that he must pay one fourth of the outfits and expenses, and also of the wages until the outward cargo was landed at Demerara. *The other wages would [*254] have been lost by the wreck, had not sufficient been saved to pay them. They are then a charge on the property saved in the nature of expenses towards the salvage.
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