Reed v. Canfield
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 the case of a libel in personam, filed [by William Canfield] against [Sheffield Reed and others] the owners of the ship Albion, of New Bedford, belonging to the original respondents, (now appellants,) for compensation for expenses incurred in curing the libellant, who was a sea man on board of the ship, and severely injured, as is alleged, while in the service of the ship.
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[Appeal from the district court of the United States, for the district of Massachusetts.] This was the case of a libel in personam, filed [by William Canfield] against [Sheffield Reed and others] the owners of the ship Albion, of New Bedford, belonging to the original respondents, (now appellants,) for compensation for expenses incurred in curing the libellant, who was a sea man on board of the ship, and severely injured, as is alleged, while in the service of the ship. The facts arc, that the Albion was engaged in the whale fishery, and, being on her return from a voyage in the Pacific, came…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
This libel presents a ease somewhat novel in the annals of our maritime jurisprudence. Upon the more general question suggested upon the posture of the facts, I have no difficulty. I am clearly of opinion, that a seaman, .who is taken sick, or is injured, or disabled in the service of the ship, without any fault on his own part, is by the maritime law entitled to be healed at the expense of the ship. I do not go over the authorities on this subject. They will be found in some measure collected In the opinion delivered in Harden v. Gordon [Case No. 6,047], to which I…
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