Steeves v. American Mail Line, Ltd.

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, seamen formerly on the American Steamship Capillo, destroyed by Japanese bombing in Manila, P. I., on December 29, 1941, while on a round voyage from the Columbia River to Asiatic ports and return, appeal from a decree in admiralty denying them recovery from appellee, then owner of the Capillo, for war bonus payments to them after her destruction, for the period while imprisoned by the Japanese and until their arrival in the United States in a Pacific Coast port and for the cost of their repatriation to such a port.

Appellants were freed by an exchange of…