Dustin v. Murray

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This action is brought by a large number of persons, mostly colored seamen, who formed part off the ship’s company of the steamer Algonquin, to recover of the defendant, as the owner of that vessel, three months’ extra wages, under the provisions of the act of congress, passed February 2S, 1S03. The Algonquin was a vessel of war, fitted out in this port by the defendant, who had an agreement with the Haytian government for her purchase of him, and her delivery by *145him in Port au Prince. On the 13th day of October, 1S70, a large crew was shipped for her, in New York, by…