Scott v. Rose

LOWELL, District Judge.

This little case involves some nice points of law and fact. The libellant proceeds for wages said to have been earned in 1873. It appears that the libel-lant lives in Baltimore, and that he was employed as cook on board the brig Chimborazo, of which the defendant is one of the owners, in a considerable number of coasting voyages from Massachusetts and Maine to Baltimore and other Southern ports. Twice it happened that he stayed away from the ship in Baltimore, under circumstances which the respondent contends were such as to forfeit the wages due him. On the first…