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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 17,053.
    WALCOTT v. WILCUTT.
    District Court, D. Massachusetts.
    May, 1838.
    Shipping — Abduction op Minor by Master — Liability op Owners.
    [Cited in 2 Pars. Shipp. & Adm. 11, to the point that the owners of a whaling vessel are liable for damages for the abduction of a minor by the captain, although they had no personal Unowl-' edge of the fact; the act held to be within the scope of the authority of the master as agent of the owners.]
    [See Sherwood v. Hall. Case No. 12,777; Lus-com v. Osgood, Id. 8,608.]
    [Nowhere reported; opinion not now accessible.]