Stetson v. S/V SEA CLOUD

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

YOUNG, District Judge.

This action for seamen’s wages arises under the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of this Court. In it, the plaintiffs, Fred and Debbie Stetson, husband and wife, seek damages allegedly due them under a certain maritime contract including salary due, unreimbursed out-of-pocket expenses, the monetary value of certain room and board which they claim due them, and punitive damages and attorney’s fees for the alleged “wrongful, malicious, wanton and reckless, unconscionable and callously indifferent” conduct of the defendant vessel’s owners. 1 Upon…