Case Name: HITCHEN et al. v. WILSON et al.
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of Maryland
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1812-05
Citations: 12 F. Cas. 247
Docket Number: 
Parties: HITCHEN et al. v. WILSON et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 12
Pages: 247–247

Head Matter:
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.]

Opinion:
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.