Goodrich v. Domingo

HOFFMAN, District Judge.

This suit is brought to recover the shares due the libel-lants of the proceeds of the catch of fish, on a fishing voyage in the above vessel. The contract, as stated in the articles, which were signed at Honolulu, is as follows:

“The crew shall receive instead of monthly wages two fifths of the sales of the fish taken on said voyage. It is intended and agreed to hire as many men as it is deemed advisable to fish on said voyage, the crew or sharesmen to pay- the wages of said hired men, and they are to draw two fifths of the sales of said fish caught by them. They, the…