Burdett v. Williams

This is a libel in personam, claiming seaman’s wages, and damages for short allowance of food, and for an unnecessary and wrongful detention for nearly 10 months in the waters of British North America. Francis H. Yon, Thomas J. Kelly, and Isaac 1). Sampson have, by petition, become eo-libelants since the libel was filed. The facts in the case are as follows:

In the spring of 1884 the respondents, C. A. Williams & Co., were the owners of two whaling vessels, the Boswell King and the Lizzie P. Simmons, which were then on whaling voyages upon the east coast of British North America. The King had…