The Atlantic
District Court, S.D. New York
In admiralty. This was a libel in rem by George Stotesburg, against the ship Atlantic, to recover wages, and also the expenses of libellant’s cure for injuries received during his service on board.
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In admiralty. This was a libel in rem by George Stotesburg, against the ship Atlantic, to recover wages, and also the expenses of libellant’s cure for injuries received during his service on board. The libel stated the following facts': That in July, 1845, the master of the Atlantic, then in the port of New London making ready for a three years’ whaling voyage to the Northwest coast, shipped the libellant as green hand for such .voyage, on the two hundred and twenty-fifth lay or share of what should be taken b3r the ship, as the libellant’s wages. That the libellant signed the shipping…
1Opinion of the Court
BETTS, District Judge.
The libellant shipped at New London in July, 1845, as carpenter’s mate, on a whaling voyage. In consequence of injuries received by him, in the discharge of his duty, he was taken on shore in the port of Lahaina, in the island of Maui, one of the Sandwich Islands, and left in the hospital there. The ship proceeded on her voyage, and after completing her cruise, touched at Maui, on her return home, and received the libellant on board, he being placed there as a sick and disabled seaman by the consul, and was brought to the United States, the master receiving $10 passage…
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- Powers v. PeopleNew York Supreme Court · 1809
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