City of Norwich

GARVIN, District Judge.

The importance of a speedy adjudication of the rights of the parties prompts me to express my conclusions briefly, without setting forth the facts at length. Conflicting testimony was offered as to whether there was a desertion or discharge. The fact remains, however, that after the libelants went ashore, as they insist, merely to complain to the British consul; they returned to the ship, and remained on the pier, to which she was moored, for two or three days. This is not consistent with any theory that when they left in the first instance they thereby deserted. Except…