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Case No. 11,542.
    RAMBLER v. CHOAT.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 167.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    June Term, 1804.
    Evidence — Answer to Libei. — Pleading at Law t —General Cocnt — Special Agreement.
    1. In an action at law by a seaman against the master, the plaintiff may read, in evidence, | the answer of the master to a libel by the sea- i men for their wages, the plaintiff being one of , the libellants. ■
    2. If there be a special agreement, the plaintiff cannot recover upon a general count.
    Suit by a seaman for wages against the captain of the ship Governor Strong.
    Mr. Youngs, for plaintiff,
    offered to read the answer of the captain to the libel of the sail- j ors in the court of admiralty, the present ! plaintiff being one of the libellants. ¡
    Admitted by the court (KILTY, Chief Judge, ; •doubting). i
    It appeared by the proceedings in the ad- , miralty, that shipping articles had been exe- i cuted, and the declaration being indebitatus assumpsit for work and labor, and quantum meruit, and no special count on the agreement.
   THE COURT

(nem. con.) was of opinion that the plaintiff could not recover on this ■declaration, it being in evidence that there was a special agreement.

Leave to amend, on giving fresh security for costs, by first day of next term.

Nonsuit reinstated, with leave to amend.