Sherwood v. Hall
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] Libel [by William Sherwood against Isaac Hall and Thomas Curtis] in a cause of damage for abduction of the libellant’s son on a voyage from Boston to Trieste, and back again to Boston. The facts of this ease will sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.
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[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] Libel [by William Sherwood against Isaac Hall and Thomas Curtis] in a cause of damage for abduction of the libellant’s son on a voyage from Boston to Trieste, and back again to Boston. The facts of this ease will sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. At the hearing in the district court, the libel was, by consent of the parties, dismissed [ease unreported] with a view to argue the same cause upon the appeal in this court.
1Opinion of the Court
8TORY, Circuit Justice.
The present is a libel for a maritime tort, technically called a cause of damage, for the asserted abduction of the minor son of the libellant, and employing him as a seaman on board of the brig Rupee, owned by the respondents, and of which one John Freeman, Jr., was then master, on a voyage from Boston to Trieste, and Palermo, and back again to Boston. There is no dispute that the minor went on the voyage; that he was, at the time of the sailing of the brig, known to Freeman (the master) to be a minor, and to have run away from another vessel, then in the port of Bos*1293ton…
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