Moran v. Baudin

The libel in this case states, that Charles Moran the libellant entered as a mariner on board the ship L’Heureux at Nantz, in France, on the twenty-third day of October, 1786, under an engagement for a voyage from the said port of Nantz to New Orleans in the Mississippi, from thence to go to Martinique, and from thence to return to France. That Alexander Baudin the captain, had totally altered this voyage by repeated deviations, whereby the contract was broken, and thereupon the libellant prays a discharge and the amount of wages due. The circumstances .of this case appear from the testimony…