Low Ling Sing v. Standard Transp. Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Libel in personam by Low Ling Sing and others against the Standard Transportation Company, Limited, for seamen’s wages. The libelants were members of a crew shipping at Calcutta or Bombay for a voyage to New York and return upon the steamship Wabasha, flying the British flag. At New York they demanded half the wages earned and still due them, under Revised Statutes, J 4530 (Comp. St. § 8322), which were refused.
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In Admiralty. Libel in personam by Low Ling Sing and others against the Standard Transportation Company, Limited, for seamen’s wages. The libelants were members of a crew shipping at Calcutta or Bombay for a voyage to New York and return upon the steamship Wabasha, flying the British flag. At New York they demanded half the wages earned and still due them, under Revised Statutes, J 4530 (Comp. St. § 8322), which were refused. Theretofore they had received one-half the total wages earned since the voyage began. If they were entitled to half the wages earned and still unpaid, their demand was…
1Opinion of the CourtLearned Hand, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This question has been many times before the courts, and there is only one decision in favor of the libelants’ The Ixion (D. C.) 237 Fed. 142. In re Ivertson (D. C.) 237 Fed. 498, contains an express. dictum in accord, but it was clearly obiter and cannot rank as a decision. Contrary are a decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, The Rathlin Head, 262 Fed. 751, and another of the Third Circuit. The London, 241 Fed. 863, 154 C. C. A. 565. In addition there are four decisions of District Judges. The Thor, 248 *1018Fed. 942 (Judge Dooling);…
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