Moore v. Neafie

Choate, D. J.

These are suits for wages, brought by seamen who served on the steam-tug Mary J. Finn. They were employed at a certain rate of wages per month, and not for any definite period of time, unless such mode of employment implies a definite time of service. The course of business between the parties was to have a settlement on or up to the last day of each month. The last settlement was up to the end of April, 1880. On the fifteenth of May the respondents discharged the crew without assigning any cause. They now claim their wages up to the end of May. Respondents have tendered them…