The Amazon
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Admiralty. Suit for seamens’ wages and damages for delay in payment. Decree for libelants for amount earned by actual service and costs.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
The libelants and five others hired as members of the crew of the schooner Amazon, for a voyage from Kranapali, in the Sandwich Islands, to Portland, Or., and went on board, and performed their duties for seven days. During that period a man named Duffy, who was the only other member of the crew, left the ship, and when the captain was about to proceed on the voyage, with a crew of only seven men before the mast, they refused to obey an order to loosen the sails, and protested to the captain against going to sea short-handed. The captain refused to secure an additional…
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