Pacific Mail Steamship Co. v. Lucas
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI to the circuit court of appeals for the NINTH CIRCUIT. Certiorari to a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals affirming a decree of the District Court in admiralty awarding the libelant the amounts he was compelled to pay for subsistence and medical treatment at a port of call where he left the ship for hospital treatment, and the amount of his wages from that time until the ship completed her voyage.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a.libel brought by the respondent to recover $219 for wages, subsistence and medical attendance, the libellant having been left at Honolulu, ill, in the course of a voyage from San Francisco to the Orient and return. The defence is that he was not ill, that ill or well he should have, remained upon the vessel, and further that he was discharged, and signed the mutual release required .by Rev. Stats., § 4552, and by that section made a bar. The Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed the finding of the District Court that the libellant was not malingering, and, as we take it, although it is…
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