The David Evans
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Territory of Haw.aii. Action in admiralty by Allain Pasquion against the schooner David Evans; Frank T. Sanders, master, bailee, and claimant, and the Pacific Shipping Company, owner. Decree for respondents, and libelant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WOLVERTON, District Judge.
The libelant, a seaman under shipping articles with the schooner David Evans, feeling himself aggrieved by the treatment of the master, instituted a libel in rem to recover damages for breach of contract, and for release from his articles. The schooner, laden with lumber, after completing a voyage from Aberdeen, Wash., to Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, was at anchor in Pearl Harbor. On September 14, 1910, and while libelant was on board the vessel, it is alleged that the master, Frank T. Sanders, in violation of the shipping articles, and without any lawful cause or…
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- Pasquoin v. The American Schooner David EvansDistrict Court, D. Hawaii · 1910