The Dolphin
District Court, E.D. New York
1Opinion of the Court
BENEDICT, District Judge.
This is a cause of subtraction of wages. There is no doubt, upon the evidence, that these libel-lants were hired for a voyage to St Domingo, at $25 per month; that they rendered themselves on board the schooner and went to work, and that they were afterwards told to go home to their' boarding house for meals, because they could not -procure the meals on board. The men left the ship, therefore, by permission, and, as they say, returned the next day ready to continue their labors, when they were informed that other men had been shipped, and their services were not…
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