Billings v. Bausback
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; Robert S. Bean, Judge. Suit in admiralty by Erwin Bansback and others against the schooner W. H. Talbot, George E. Billings, claimant, to recover compensation for short allowance and bad quality of food furnished libelants as seamen during a voyage. Decree for libelants, and claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
HUNT, Circuit Judge.
Appeal in admiralty from a final decree of the District Court for the Northern District of California, allowing to appellees certain compensation for reduction of food allow-*524anee, and because of the bad quality of food furnished during a voyage made in March and April, 1911, on the sailing ship W. H. Talbpt from Newcastle, Australia, to San Francisco, Cal.
The libel was brought by appellees, seamen, who alleged that during the voyage referred to the allowance of the provisions to which each of the seamen was entitled under section 4612 of the Revised Statutes of the United…
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