Wilson v. Manhattan Canning Co.
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Admiralty. Suit by J. W. Wilson against the Manhattan Canning Company. On exceptions to libel.
1Opinion of the Court
CUSHMAN, District Judge.
This cause is for decision upon the exceptions of the respondent to the libel, which is one for wages, maintenance, and expenses of cure. On the 21st of April, 1913, libel-ant shipped as cook on the brig Harriet G., at Seattle, its home port, for a voyage of six months’ duration to Port Heiden, in Alaska; the agreed wages being $80 per month. He began the discharge of his employment the same day, continuing therein until the 23d day of April, 1913, when, at Seattle, while the vessel was being towed from the dock to anchorage, libelant fell from the companionway leading…
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