The Sailor Prince
District Court, S.D. New York
The libel in this case was filed by John P. i Murray, and fourteen other seamen, against | the British ship Sailor Prince, and the freight I money earned by her on a voyage from lia- ¡ nilla to New York, to recover their wages. '• The amount claimed to be due for the wages was about $5.000, and was for the service of ■ the seamen on board of the vessel, on the voy- , age on which the freight money was earned. ¡ On the filing of the libel a monition was is- i sued, March 1st,…
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The libel in this case was filed by John P. i Murray, and fourteen other seamen, against | the British ship Sailor Prince, and the freight I money earned by her on a voyage from lia- ¡ nilla to New York, to recover their wages. '• The amount claimed to be due for the wages was about $5.000, and was for the service of ■ the seamen on board of the vessel, on the voy- , age on which the freight money was earned. ¡ On the filing of the libel a monition was is- i sued, March 1st, 1867, against the vessel and j the freight money. The marshal made return to that monition that he had not attached the…
1Opinion of the Court
BLATOHFORD, District Judge.
The lien of a seaman for his wages is, in the admiralty, prior and paramount to all other claims on the subject of the lien, and is to be first paid out of it or its proceeds. The freight money earned by the vessel on the voyage on which the seaman served is subject to such paramount lien, and is the natural fund out of which the wages are to be paid; and this lien is to be administered by the court of admiralty by the service of its attachment upon the freight money in the hands of the parties where such money is found. Drinkwater v. The Spartan [Case No. 4,085];…
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