Chamberlain v. Chandler
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
This was a libel in the admiralty, brought by the libellants, (being husband, wife, and children,) who were passengers on board of the ship Pearl, on a voyage from the island of Woakoo to Boston, against the defendant, who was master of the ship, for the voyage, for damage, for asserted ill-treatment and injuries to them during the voyage. The defendant put in, by way of answer, an allegation denying the ill-treatment and injuries.
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This was a libel in the admiralty, brought by the libellants, (being husband, wife, and children,) who were passengers on board of the ship Pearl, on a voyage from the island of Woakoo to Boston, against the defendant, who was master of the ship, for the voyage, for damage, for asserted ill-treatment and injuries to them during the voyage. The defendant put in, by way of answer, an allegation denying the ill-treatment and injuries. The cause came to be heard upon the evidence.
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
No exception has been interposed against the jurisdiction of the court in this case. I wish however that it should be understood, that the point has not passed sub silentio; but that it has attracted the consideration of the court. The contract itself is a maritime contract, for the conveyance of passengers on the high seas, and the wrongs complained of, are gross ill-treatment and misconduct in the course of the voyage, while on the high seas, by the master, in breach of the stipulations necessarily implied in his contract, of the duties of his office, and of the…
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