Peterson v. The Chandos

Ready, D. J.

In January, 1880, the American ship Chandos sailed from the port of New York for Portland, with a full cargo of railway iron. The libellant, Gustavus Peterson, a *647native of Sweden and aged twenty-seven years, shipped for the voyage as an able-bodied seaman.

Near three o’clock of the morning of June 10th, in about latitude 38 south, longitude 90 west, from Greenwich, the weather being dark and rainy, with a good breeze, the libel-ant was ordered by the second mate to go aloft and cast off the stop on the foretop-gaJlant halliards. lie wont up the rigging on the starboard side to the…