City of Norwich
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Suit in admiralty by Fazel Ahammed and others against the steamship City of Norwich; Norton, Lilly & Company, claimant. Decree for libelants, and claimant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Suit in admiralty by Fazel Ahammed and others against the steamship City of Norwich; Norton, Lilly & Company, claimant. Decree for libelants, and claimant appeals. This is an appeal by the claimants of the steamship City of Norwich from a final decree awarding to the libelants for wages, maintenance, and transportation an amount which aggregates $20,235.28. The libelants are 33 seamen, who were employed as firemen on the- steamship, and who seek to recover wiges and penalties under section 4529 of the…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The opinions of the court below may be found in 273 Fed. 304, and in 274 Fed. 374. There are 22 assignments of error. The first of these is that the court found that the libelants were wrongfully discharged, whereas they were in fact deserters. A number of the other errors assigned are serious and' among- them are:
That the court, having rendered an opinion dismissing the libel on May 25, 1921, allowed the libelants at the June term to reopen the case oil June 8th to file an amended libel and to introduce further testimony, and that the court was without…
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