Black v. The Louisiana
District Court, D. Pennsylvania
In admiralty. A steward of a ship belonging to Philadelphia, was discharged, for malconduct, at Liverpool, in England, where the vessel had delivered her cargo, and earned her freight, for that section of the voyage. On the ship’s arrival at Philadelphia, he sued for wages during the whole voyage. He alleged that he had been discharged, at the foreign port, without lawful cause.
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In admiralty. A steward of a ship belonging to Philadelphia, was discharged, for malconduct, at Liverpool, in England, where the vessel had delivered her cargo, and earned her freight, for that section of the voyage. On the ship’s arrival at Philadelphia, he sued for wages during the whole voyage. He alleged that he had been discharged, at the foreign port, without lawful cause. It appeared, in proof, that the steward had carried on shore, and sold, a considerable quantity of cabin-stores and provisions, which had been left on board by passengers. He had, by landing these articles, endangered…
1Opinion of the Court
PETERS, District Judge.
I am satisfied, on due enquiry, that the remnants of stores and provisions, are not perquisites of the steward. They commonly belong to the master, unless it is otherwise arranged, by the custom and usage in such cases. The passengers may, and often do select certain articles of extra stores, for their own disposal; I find no positive, or legal regulation on the subject, much less, any giving a property in such stores, to the steward. If the fact or law, were, as is contended in this cause by the steward’s counsel, it would be his interest to stint the passengers, that…
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