Allen v. Hitch
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[On appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] [In admiralty. libel by William F. Hitch, in a cause of subtraction of wages, against Edmund Allen and others. Decree for li-bellant. Respondents appeal. Affirmed.]
1Opinion of the Court
CURTIS, Circuit Justice.
This is. an appeal from a decree of the district court,3 in a cause of subtraction of wages, alleged to have been earned on board the bark Belle, on a whaling voyage. That court made a *475decree In favor of Hitch, the libellant, for the sum of $490.93. The respondents appealed. At the hearing they have not denied the title of the libellant to wages, but insist that his just claim amounts only to a lay of 1-1G5. The district court allowed-the libellant 1-145, and the difference in money between these two lays is only about sixty dollars; a sum which both parties agree…
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