Joy v. Allen

WOODBURY, Circuit Justice.

The right of seamen to wages, as a general principle, after freight has been earned and the voyage ended, and to recover the same of the owners, or the master when their agent, or of the vessel in rem when not lost, is well defined and clearly regulated by many adjudged cases, as well as by elementary principles. But the rules on this subject, in the case of whaling voyages, where usually the wages are not a fixed sum per month, or a quantum meruit, but a portion or share in the earnings, and controlled by specific provisions in the shipping articles, are less…