Da Crouz v. Cape Horn Pigeon

Hoffman, District Judge.

This is one of the several libels filed by the crews of the whaling fleet which arrived at this port at the close of last year’s whaling season, to procure a revision by the court of the settlements made or offered to the men. It was stipulated by the advocates representing all the vessels libeled and all the libelants that the testimony should be confined to the inquiry, whether the valuation of the oil and bone, which formed the basis on which the men’s accounts were made up and adjusted, was fair and reasonable, and, if not, the court should determine on what…