Lovrein v. Thompson

SPRAGUE, District Judge.

This is a libel by a father for the services of his minor son, in a whaling voyage. The son was Dorn in New Hampshire, in the year 1834. Without the knowledge or consent of his father, he left his home in New Hampshire, went to Vermont and Maine, where he remained a considerable time, and thence to Boston. In this city he soon found himself in a shipping office, where he was induced to engage in the whaling service. He was then nineteen years of age, and so stated to the shipping master, who told him. that would not do, he must be twenty-one; he then said he guessed he…