Burns v. Baylis

The three petitioners were seamen on the schooner Charles L. Baylis for different periods during the 10 months prior to her arrival in New York, on the nineteenth of October last. On the twenty-first of October they filed a libel against the schooner to recover their wages, under which the schooner was arrested, and upon the decree subsequently obtained was sold by the'marshal in November, The petitioners were paid the wages due to them up to the day of filing the libel, and the balance of the proceeds have been paid into court, against which petitions have been filed by other claimants,…