U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts October 15, 1836 (Brown v. Lull)

STORY, Circuit Justice.

Some principles, applicable to the present case, are now so clear, that they need only be stated, although at a former time they were subject to many learned doubts. The capture of a neutral ship does not of itself operate as a dissolution of the contract for mariners’ wages, but at most, only as a suspension of the contract.