Hoeh v. The New City

This is a suit against a British vessel by members of her crew to recover wages claimed for services on a voyage from Philadelphia to Japan, thence to Whatcom via Port Towmsend, in this state. The term of service for which the libelants contracted, as appears by the shipping articles, has not expired, and the vessel has not reached a port at which the libelants can, by the terms of said articles, claim their discharge. Prom the evidence taken, I infer that during their service in this vessel the libelants have endured the usual hardships of a sailor life, and there is evidence of offenses…