McCarthy v. Rosenberg

This is a libel in personam alleging that the libellant, being a shipping master, engaged a number of seamen to ship on the bark “Erskine hi. Phelps” for a voyage from Honolulu to the port of Philadelphia, in the United States, and that the libellee, also a shipping master, maliciously prevented ■such seamen, who had signed articles for services on the said bark, from going on board to perform their engagement with said vessel, but secreted them so that the vessel was compelled to leave the port of Honolulu without taking them on board, ■and in consequence thereof, the libellant lost certain…