Bolden v. Jensen
District Court, D. Washington
This was a libel by Louis Bolden against S. Jensen and J. M. McLean to recover damages for cruelty and personal injuries inflicted upon him as a seaman upon a Chilian ship. Defendants, having been taken in custody under a warrant of arrest issued pursuant to admiralty rule 2, moved the court to quash the same and discharge them, and exonerate their sureties. This motion was heretofore denied. 69 Fed. 745. The cause is now heard upon the merits.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
The libelant, who is a North Carolina negro, came to Port Townsend from Valparaiso, as a member of the crew of the Chilian ship Atacama. On account of injury to his wrists and hands, he is in a most deplorable condition. The actual physical condition of those members, and the uncontradicted testimony of the physicians who have examined and treated him, proves that he has been subjected to torture, by having both wrists so tightly bound by handcuffs or cords as to arrest circulation for such length of time as to produce what the doctors term "strangulation.” The skin…
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