Savin v. The Juno

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

This is a case in admiralty, appealed from the district court The libellant claims the sum of eighty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents, as the balance due him on his wages as cook and steward of the ship Juno, for services rendered as such from the first of August, 1872, until the 14th of January, 1873. The defence which is set up by way of peremptory exception is, that on the 24th of January, 1873, the libellant in consideration of the sum of $55, released the Juno, her captain and owners from the claim set forth in the libel.

The facts as shown by the proof are, that…