Legal Opinion
The Quoque
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided October 25, 1919PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit by C. G. Westwood and others against steamship Quoque.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, District Judge.
The libel in this case was filed in behalf of C. G. Westwood and others, of the crew of the American steamship Quoque, to recover wages claimed to be due them under certain shipping articles entered into between the master of the vessel and the libelants at the port of Baltimore, Md., on the 3d of April, 1919. The case turns upon the validity of the shipping articles under which the voyage was undertaken; the provision prescribing the voyage, and the duration thereof, being as follows:
“From the port of Baltimore, Md., to such ports and places in any part of the world,…
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- The OccidentalDistrict Court, D. Washington · 1900
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