Stanwood v. Flagg
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for money received by the defendant, as master, to the use of the plaintiff, as owner, of the ship Southern Eagle. At the trial in the superior court, before Rockwell, J., a verdict was returned for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
There is no material difference between the two reports of the auditor. The facts as found by him, and upon which the ruling of the superior court was based, were as follows:
By a contract made in the United States on the 13th of March 1863, the plaintiff employed the defendant as master of a ship then in the port of New York and bound on a foreign voyage, at the rate of one hundred dollars a month, without any express stipulation that it should be paid in gold. The plaintiff, on the day on which the contract was made, and twice afterwards, wrote letters to the defendant, directing him upon…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Babcock v. TerryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
3Cited by4 opinions
- Hancock v. Franklin InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Stark v. CoffinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Bowditch v. SoltykMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Loring v. LoringSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1875