Wope v. Hemenway
District Court, D. Massachusetts
3 [This was a case for seamen’s wages. Libellants were respectable men, natives of Sweden, were going to California, and had partly engaged a direct passage to San Francisco. A shipping master from Mr. Hemen-way called at their boarding house in Boston, and offered them wages to go to Valparaiso in the ship Loo Choo, as seamen. He told them they had better earn wages to Valparaiso, and they could always easily get a passage from Valparaiso to San Francisco.
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3 [This was a case for seamen’s wages. Libellants were respectable men, natives of Sweden, were going to California, and had partly engaged a direct passage to San Francisco. A shipping master from Mr. Hemen-way called at their boarding house in Boston, and offered them wages to go to Valparaiso in the ship Loo Choo, as seamen. He told them they had better earn wages to Valparaiso, and they could always easily get a passage from Valparaiso to San Francisco. Libellants went and looked at the ship and her accommodations, and after conferring together, concluded to go in her. Upon returning to…
1Opinion of the Court
SPRAGUE, District Judge.
This is a libel for seamen’s wages on a voyage from Boston to Valparaiso and back. That the services were rendered is not denied. But the defendant insists that deduction should be made for the expenses of the imprisonment of the libellants at Valparaiso. The libel-lants contend that the imprisonment was unlawful, and they present three distinct grounds of illegality: (1) That by the express agreement made at the time they shipped, they were to be discharged at Valparaiso. (2] That the shipping articles do not describe the voyage as required by the laws of the United…
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- The Samuel OberDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1883