Neil v. Gulf Oil Corp.

JAMES ALGER FEE, District Judge.

Three seamen are former crew members of the “Gulfmoon,” operated 'by Gulf Oil Corporation. Each seeks to recover one month’s wages because of “discharge” on May 15, 1948. Other crew members, who were signed off at the same time, have recovered. Newton v. Gulf Oil Corporation, D.C., 87 F.Supp. 210, 3 Cir., 180 F.2d 491, certiorari denied, 340 U.S. 814, 71 S.Ct. 42, 95 L.Ed. 598. These cases were submitted under a pretrial order which sets out the agreed facts.

The sole distinction between the cases at bar and the Newton case, supra, is that the seamen here signed…