Paulson v. Governor Ames
District Court, D. Washington
In Admiralty. Libel in rem, against the schooner Governor Ames, by John Paulson, a seaman, to recover damages for a personal injury suffered while stowing cargo. Decree that libelant recover the amount of wages which he would have earned by completing the voyage for which he had engaged to serve.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
From the evidence in this case .1 find that the libelant was hired at Ban Francisco to serve as an able seaman, on board the schooner Governor Ames, for a voyage from San Francisco to Puget sound, thence to Australia, and return *328to an American port on the Pacific coast. The wages contracted for were to be at the rate of $40 per month until the vessel should be loaded at Puget sound for the contemplated -voyage to Australia, and from that time, until the termination of the contract, at the rate of $30 per month. The shipping articles signed by the libelant do not…
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