Magee v. The Moss
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
The libellants [John Magee, Alexander Ware, John Dunderfield, and William Pitt] were seamen on board the ship Moss. They shipped at Philadelphia, as appeared by the articles, on the 2d January, 1S30, on board the ship Moss, at the wages of fifteen dollars a month, “on a voyage from Philadelphia to South America, or any other port or ports, backwards and forwards, when and where required, and back to Philadelphia, unless sooner discharged.”. The vessel sailed on the 3d…
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The libellants [John Magee, Alexander Ware, John Dunderfield, and William Pitt] were seamen on board the ship Moss. They shipped at Philadelphia, as appeared by the articles, on the 2d January, 1S30, on board the ship Moss, at the wages of fifteen dollars a month, “on a voyage from Philadelphia to South America, or any other port or ports, backwards and forwards, when and where required, and back to Philadelphia, unless sooner discharged.”. The vessel sailed on the 3d January, for Buenos Ayres, where they arrived about the 5th March. All the persons on board were put on an allowance of three…
1Opinion of the Court
HOPKINSON. District Judge.
The libel-lants have presented three claims for the decision of the court 1. For having been put on short allowance. 2. For wages up to the time they left the ship. 3. For additional pay to bring them back to the United States. The respondent rebuts these claims; the first by the denial of the charge; the second and third by charging the libellants with a desertion from the ship and their duty, by which they have forfeited their wages, and of course every claim to an extra allowance. The fact being admitted that they did leave the vessel at Havanna, it is incumbent…
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