THE WILLIAM M. HOAG

Nos. 137, 138.

168 U.S. 443 (1897)

THE WILLIAM M. HOAG. THE THREE SISTERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 6, 1897.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William T. Muir and Mr. John W. Whalley for appellants.

Mr. L.B. Cox, Mr. W.W. Cotton, Mr. Thomas O'Day and Mr. C.F. Lord for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases differ from those already disposed of ante, 437, only in the fact that the libels contain claims by the masters of those vessels, with an averment that during the time they were employed there was an officer known as the purser; that the agents of the receiver and the purser collected and received all the earnings from the vessels from both passengers...

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