The Zack Chandler

Blodgett, D. J.

This is a libel in personam, against the master and owners of the schooner Zack Chandler, *685for wages and damages. The material facts, which are undisputed, are that, on the thirteenth day of November last, the libellants were shipped, at the port of Chicago, as seamen, to serve on said schooner at the rate of four dollars per day, for a voyage from Chicago to the port of Brie, in the state of Pennsylvania. No shipping articles were signed, and no stipulation made as to the rights of the respective parties in case the voyage should not be completed that season. The schooner left…