Bolden v. Jensen
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Washington
This was a libel in'personam by Louis Bolden, a citizen of the United States, against A. Jensen and I. M. McLean, the master1 and owner of the Chilean ship Atacama, to recover damages for personal injury and cruelty inflicted on the libelant while serving on board said vessel as a seaman. Pursuant to admiralty rule 2, promulgated by the supreme court, a simple warrant of arrest was issued, and the defendants were taken into custody, and admitted to bail.
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This was a libel in'personam by Louis Bolden, a citizen of the United States, against A. Jensen and I. M. McLean, the master1 and owner of the Chilean ship Atacama, to recover damages for personal injury and cruelty inflicted on the libelant while serving on board said vessel as a seaman. Pursuant to admiralty rule 2, promulgated by the supreme court, a simple warrant of arrest was issued, and the defendants were taken into custody, and admitted to bail. Upon entering a special appearance by counsel, for the purpose of the motion only, the defendants moved the court to quash the warrant of…
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
The argument for the defendants upon this motion is founded upon section 990, Rev. St., which provides that “no person shall be imprisoned for debt in any state, on process issuing from a court of the United States, where by the laws of such state, imprisonment for debt has been or shall be abolished,” and the amended forty-seventh admiralty rule, which provides: :i ;i And imprisonment for debt, on process issuing out of the admiralty court, is abolished in all cases where, by the laws of the state in which the couft is held, imprisonment for debt has been or shall be…
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