Case ID: f_4/html/0846-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Choate, D. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Smith v. Steamer Joshua Levines.
    
      (District Court, S. D. New York.
    
    December 28, 1880.)
    X. "Wages — Intoxication—Evidence,
    
      G. H. Williams, for libellant.
    
      G. E. Crowell, for claimant.
   Choate, D. J.

This is a suit for wages during the years 1877, 1878, and 1879. The libellant alleges a special agreement to pay him $100 v. month during the time the vessel was running. He served as engineer and fireman. The promise to pay the libellant $100 a month is proved, but the claimant has attempted to show that' he was so intoxicated when he made the promise that he did not know what he was doing. I think the weight of the testimony is against the claimant on this point, a.nd the libellant is entitled to recover his wages at that rate. His wages amount to $2,030 between September 1, 1877, and February 11, 1879, He admits' that the claimant is entitled to credits, which reduce the amount to $810.29, for which sum, with interest from February 11,1879, with costs, the libellant is entitled to a decree.