The George
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] This was a libel for mariner’s wages in the admiralty, originally against the vessel, and now proceeding against the owners [Joseph Wescott and others]. Upon the hearing of the cause in the district court [Case No. S,035], it was decreed, that the libellant [William Lamson] was entitled to wages to the amount of fifty-four dollars and fifty cents aDd costs of suit.
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[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] This was a libel for mariner’s wages in the admiralty, originally against the vessel, and now proceeding against the owners [Joseph Wescott and others]. Upon the hearing of the cause in the district court [Case No. S,035], it was decreed, that the libellant [William Lamson] was entitled to wages to the amount of fifty-four dollars and fifty cents aDd costs of suit. From this decree the owners entered an appeal to the circuit court
1Opinion of the Court
gTORY, Circuit Justice.
This is a libel Instituted by the libellant in the admiralty for wages due to him, as mate of the brig George, for a voyage from Boston to St. Jago, in the island of Cuba, and back to the United States. There is no dispute as to the claim for wages, the amount being admitted. But the owners bring forward a claim in the nature of a set-off for money expended for the libellant on account of his sickness on shore at St. Jago. The items of the account are for board, washing, apothecary’s bill, physician’s bill, and wine supplied for the libellant, amounting in the whole to…
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