Thompson
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Admiralty. Suit to recover wages for services performed as members of the ship’s crew on a voyage from Nome to Tacoma without the signing of shipping articles. Decree for libelants.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
In the month of September, 1904, the steamship Elihu Thompson, being at Nome, Alaska, in the progress of a voyage from Tacoma to northern ports and return, and then bound from Nome to Tacoma, via Taku, in southeastern Alaska, at which place she was to take on part of her cargo, the libelants were taken on board as additional members of the crew; but they were not required to sign shipping articles, and there was^ no express contract made for the payment of wages for their services. They were in the service of the ship 21 days, and during that time they were treated as…
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