Moore v. Jones
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit by the master against the owners of a vessel, for his wages and port pay during a voyage from the United States to the Cape of Good Hope, and elsewhere. The agreement between the plaintiff and defendants, touching his compensation and emoluments is contained in the following extract from their orders to him : “ For your pay and trouble we will allow you sixty dollars per month, and one dollar a day in foreign ports where you have no commissions.”
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Assumpsit by the master against the owners of a vessel, for his wages and port pay during a voyage from the United States to the Cape of Good Hope, and elsewhere. The agreement between the plaintiff and defendants, touching his compensation and emoluments is contained in the following extract from their orders to him : “ For your pay and trouble we will allow you sixty dollars per month, and one dollar a day in foreign ports where you have no commissions.” The vessel, in this case, after making sundry passages, arrived at St. Salvador, in South America, on the 5th of July, 1812, with a cargo,…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
By his contract with the owners of the vessel, the plaintiff, who was the master, was entitled to sixty dollars per month during all the time he should remain in their service. He is entitled, therefore, to his wages, until the voyage ceased, or until some event happened which vacated the contract; unless the principle of the marine law, applicable to seamen, is also applicable to him as master; in which case, as there * was a capture upon the homeward voyage, he would be entitled to his wages only up to half the time the vessel was in the last port before capture. He *380does not claim any wages…
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