The Catalonia
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Libel by Eric Shafer and others against the steamship Catalonia. Decree for libelants.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, District Judge.
[1] The conclusion of the court is that the shipping articles involved in this litigation contemplate a single voyage from New York, and back to a port of discharge in the United States, not to cover a longer period than 12 months; that the language “from the port of New York to Iquique, Chile, and such other ports and places, in any other part of the world, as the master may direct, and back to New York, a final port of discharge in the United States, for a term of time not exceeding 12 calendar months,” does not mean that the seamen bound themselves to take as many…
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