Sheppard and Others v. Taylor and Others
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Maryland. In December 1810, a libel was filed by James Sheppard and others, officers and seamen of the merchant ship Warren, against Lemuel Taylor, Samuel Smith, James A. Buchanan, John Hollins and Michael McBlair, owners of the merchant ship Warren, claiming wages ; they having shipped in 1806, at Baltimore, for a voyage from that port to the north-west coast, thence to Canton, and home to the United States.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Maryland. In December 1810, a libel was filed by James Sheppard and others, officers and seamen of the merchant ship Warren, against Lemuel Taylor, Samuel Smith, James A. Buchanan, John Hollins and Michael McBlair, owners of the merchant ship Warren, claiming wages ; they having shipped in 1806, at Baltimore, for a voyage from that port to the north-west coast, thence to Canton, and home to the United States. The facts of the case, as • they appeared in the libel and supplemental libels, petition, and in the depositions and documents filed and taken in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Story, Justice,
delivered the opinion of the court. — This is an appeal from a pro forma decree of the circuit court of the district of Maryland, in a case in admiralty, for mariners’ wages. The original libel (which was filed in December 1810) was against the owners in personam; alleging, among other things, that the libellants (six in number) shipped on board the Warren, in August 1806, to perform a voyage from Baltimore to the north-west coast, thence to Canton, in the East Indies, and thence back again to Baltimore ; that they proceeded on the voyage ; but that with the privity and consent…
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