The Massasoit

SPRAGUE, District Judge.

If no freight was earned, the first question. is, whether in case of shipwreck and total loss of freight, parts of the vessel being saved by the exertions of the crew, the seamen are entitled to wages. When the early editions of Abbott on Shipping were published, there had been no decision on this point in England. Abb. Shipp. (3d Ed.) p. 433.

In the American courts it has been settled, by a series of decisions commencing at an early date, that in such case the seamen are entitled to compensation. Should that compensation be wages under the contract? This was opposed to…