The Grace Dollar
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Admiralty. Suit by seamen for wages. Suit in rem for seamen’s wages. The libelants and interveners having signed shipping articles at San Francisco for a voyage from that port to Portland, Or., and return, and having served on board the Grace Dollar, pursuant to the shipping articles, a period of less than one month, at Aberdeen, on Gray’s Harbor, in the state of Washington, left the vessel without the master’s consent, and demanded their wages, claiming that they, had…
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In Admiralty. Suit by seamen for wages. Suit in rem for seamen’s wages. The libelants and interveners having signed shipping articles at San Francisco for a voyage from that port to Portland, Or., and return, and having served on board the Grace Dollar, pursuant to the shipping articles, a period of less than one month, at Aberdeen, on Gray’s Harbor, in the state of Washington, left the vessel without the master’s consent, and demanded their wages, claiming that they, had completed performance of their contract. Libel-ants held to be deserters, and a decree for wages denied.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
This case has been submitted for decision upon an agreed stdtement of facts, substantially as follows: The Grace Dollar.is an American vessel, engaged in the coasting trade, and was on the 10th day of May, 1906, at the port of San Francisco, at which time and place her captain, 'E. M. Olsen, hired the libelants and intervening libelants, except' Mike McGinnis, to serve as part of her crew for wages, at a specified rate. The shipping articles, which the men signed, specified the voyage which they were to make in the vessel and their term of service in the following…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- The MermaidCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1902
- Rury T. McKayDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1897