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Case No. 6,541.
    HITCHEN et al. v. WILSON et al.
    [1 Brunner, Col. Cas. 253;  4 Hall, Law J. 275.]
    Circuit Court, D. Maryland.
    May Term, 1812.
    Seamen’s Wageb.
    Where a vessel had been captured and condemned, and pending an appeal was restored, held, that the seamen were entitled to full wages.
    [Appeal from the district court of the Unit-' ed States for the district of Maryland.]
   This was a libel [by Benjamin Hitchen and others against William Wilson & Sons] for wages. The vessel had been captured and condemned. Pending the appeal she was restored to the underwriters, to whom she had been abandoned upon a compro--mise. The defendants were willing to pay the seamen’s wages, after deducting the expense of recovering the property. But the district- court decreed full wages; and the sentence was affirmed in this court.