THE VICTORIAN.
797
While hi!! application was pending in the patent office, the patentee, in endeavoring to distinguish the Akarman advertising device, whiclJ had been cited by the examiner as an anticipation, says: "The Akarman device, before being fastened in place in car or elsewhere. is of several separate pieces, and does not form a rack to hold the cards until 80 fastened, while applicant's rack is complete and in condition to receive tbp cards when not fastened to the car."
The first claim of the patent, which alone was relied on and alleged to be infringed, is as follows: "(i) An advertising rack adapted for use in a street ear, consisting ot the body, A, haVing a continuous concave face, and longitudinal moldings alan:; tbe edges tbereof, having grooves, c, adjacent to and in substantially the same plane as the concave face of the body, in combination with screws or equivalent devices for connecting the rack to the car, engaging with the moldings outside the grooves therein, substantially as and for the purpose set forth."
Frederick P. Fish and Charles G. Coo (George W. Morse and John C. Lane, on the brief), for appellant. Causten Browne and William Quinby, for appellee. Before COLT, Circuit Judge, and WEBB and BROWN, District Judges. PER CURIAM. While we entertain doubt!! whether the complainant's device involves invention or patentability, yet, admitting that both were found in it, the patent must be held so close and narrow that it is not infringed by a structure that cannot be described, in the language of the patent, as "an article complete in itself, adapted to be readily attached to the car at the place specified," or, in the language impressed upon the patent office, a rack "complete and in condition to receive the cards when not fastened to the car." We llre clear, therefore, that the respondent's structure does not infringe. The decree of the circuit court against this appellant, the Newton Street·Railway Company, is reversed, and the case is remanded to that court, with directions to dismiss the bill, with costs; the appel· lant to recover the costs of this court.
THE VICTORIAN. (District Court, D. Washington, N. D. a.AlIEN'.
July 22, 1898.)
By the act of February 18, 1895, the act of August 19, 1890, was so revised and amended as to exempt vessels in the coastwise trade (except between ports in the Atlantic and ports on the Pacific) and vessels engaged In trade between the United States and Canada from the rEquirements of the act of 1872 aI!I to keeping official log books. Hence the wages of deaerting seamen may be adjudged forfeited without any p;:oof tb:atJ1e7 were ever noted In the 101 book lUI deaertera.
WAGES-DESERTION-EvIDENCE
FROM LOG.
798
88 FEDERAL REPORTER.
This was R.libelin rem by Lawrence Goldspring and Michael Moore the steamship Victorian to recover seamen's wages. P. P. Carroll, for libelants. S. H. Piles, for claimant. HANFORD, District Judge. The libelants, after signing articles for a voyage from Seattle, via. Victoria, to Alaska and return, entered into the serV'ice of the vessel, but left her on the third day at Victoria, and were there arrested on a criminal charge, and detained until after the vessel had .proceeded on her voyage, whe.n they were released for want of evidence to sustain the accusation against them. The claimant denies any liability, and insists that the libelants forfeited their wages by desertion. The official log book has not been introduced in evidence, and there is no proof that any entry was. made therein of desertion, or any other offense committed by the libelants, and it is insisted that they cannot be treated as deserters by the court in this proceeding without proof that they were duly logged as deserters at the time, as provided by section 4597, Rev. St. U. S. I would sustain the contention of the libelants' proctor, and refuse to consider evidence of desertion, in the exercise of the discretion authorized by section 4597, if that statute were applicable in this case. The provisions of sections 4290-4292, 4596, and 4597, requiring official log books to be kept, and records of offenses to be made therein, are all part of a general and comprehensive statute prescribing the manner of shipping crews for American merchant vessels, and relating to the discipline and discharge of seamen, enacted in the year 1872. 17 Stat. 262. This statute, however, is limited by an act of congress approved June 9, 1874 (18 Stat. 64), which provides that none of the provisions of the act of 1872 "shall apply to sail or steam vessels engaged in the coast· wise trade, except the coast-wise trade between the Atlantic and Pacifio coasts, or in the lake-going trade touching at foreign ports or other· wise, or in the trade between the United States and the British American possessions, or in any case where the seamen· are by custom or agreement entitled to participate in the profits or result of a cruise, or voyage." By the second section of the act of June 19, 1886 (1 Supp. Rev. St. U. S. [2d Ed.] 493), it is provided "that shipping commissioners may ship and discharge crews for any vessel engaged in the coast. wise trade, or the trade between the United States and the dominion of Oanada, or Newfoundland, or the West Indies, or the republic of Mexico, at the request of the master i or owner of such vessel"; and by the act of August 19, 1890 (1 Supp. Rev. St. U. S. [2d Ed.] 780), the provisions of sections 4596 and 4597 are extended, and made applicable to vessels in the coastwise trade and the trade between the United States and the dominion of Canada, or Newfoundland, or the West [ndies, or Mexico, where the crews of such V'essels have been shipped by a shipping commissioner, as authorized by tl;te act of 1886. And finally, by the act of February 18, 1895 (28 Stat. 6(7), the act of August 19, 1890, was so revised and amended as to cut out entirely sections 4596 and 4597, and to exempt vessels engaged in the coastwise trade t'
SCHMIDT V. KEYSER.
799
(except between ports on the Atlantio and ports on the Paci1lo coast) and vessels engaged in trade between ports of the United States and the dominion of Canada from the requirements of the act of 1872 as to keeping official log books. There is, therefore, no statute in force requiring the production of an official log book containing evidence of desertion of any of the crew from the steamship Victorian while on a voyage from Puget Sound to British Columbia or Alaska, and there is no rule applicable to this case contrary to the general admiralty law which deprives a deserter of all right to sue for and recover wages for his unperformed contract. The Yosemite, 18 Fed. 383. The evidence is clear and convincing that both of the libelants did willfully desert the vessel at Victoria. A decree of dismissal will be entered.
SCHMIDT et al. v. KEYSER et aL KEYSER et a1. v. SCHMIDT et al. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. No. 655. 8BI1'PING-DEMURRAGE CESSOR CLAUSE-CONSTRUCTION Oll' CHARTER PARTY.
May 31, 1898.)
A charter provided for demurrage, but a "cessor clause" therein provIded that "the charterer's responsibility under this charter shall cease as soon as the cargo Is shipped and bills of lading signed, provided all the conditions called for In this charter have been fulfilled or provided for In the bill of lading." The charter also provided that bllls of lading should be signed as presented without prejudice to the charter party. but any dllTerence of freight was to be settled on signing the bills of lading. Held. that the signing of bllls of lading did not operate to release the charterers from liability for demurrage accruing prior to the signing of the bills, from their failure to fulfill the conditions of the charter.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida. This was an appeal in a libel in admiralty to recover demurrage. A full statement of the facts in the case will be found in Wood v. Keyser, 84 Fed. 688, and Steamship Co. v. Keyser, rd. 693. Ben. C. Tunison, for Schmidt & Hansen. John C. Avery, for Keyser & Co. Before PARDEE and McCORMICK, Circuit Judges, and PARLANGE, District Judge. PARLANGE, District Judge, as the organ of the court, said: The issues in this case are the same as those in Wood v. Keyser (No. 654) 84 Fed. 688, 87 Fed. 1007, and Steamship Co. v. Keyser (No. 653) 84 Fed. 693,87 Fed. 1005, recently decided by this court, except that in this cause reliance is placed on the "cessor clause" to wholly relieve the charterers from liability. I'he provisions of the charter party must be construed together. By articles 8, 9, and 10 of the