The Hattie Low

Brown, D. J.

The libelant is shown by the evidence to have been a minor about 18 years of age, and during all the time he rendered the services as mate, for which this libel was filed, to have been a member of his father’s household, who was master of the vessel and lived with all his family on board, and as such member was under his father’s governance, protection, and support. The libelant was never employed by the owners, but by the father only. Whatever his father paid him in money, then or previously, under such circumstances, were voluntary payments; the father was legally entitled to…