Legal Opinion
Swift v. The Frank & Willie
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 9, 1891PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit for seamen’s wages.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The libelants, seamen on the small British schooner The Frank and Willie, shipped on board at New Brunswick September 15, 1890, for a term of six months, to be returned at St. Johns. On the first voyage to New York, upon discharging the schooner, a seaman *489sustained considerable personal injury through alleged negligence in stowage and the manner of discharging the cargo, for which she was libeled and seized in New York upon a claim of $5,000 damages, and sold by the marshal, in consequence of which the voyage was broken up, and the libelant seamen were discharged on the 4th of October. On the…
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