Suspine v. Compania Transatlantica Centroamericana, S. A.

HULBERT, District Judge.

Two interesting questions are presented by these cross motions: The more important one is whether citizens of the Philippine Islands may be debarred, under the provisions of the Neutrality Act of 1939, 22 U.S.C.A. §§ 245j to 245j — 19, from serving as seamen on a vessel of foreign registry clearing from a port of "the United States; the other is, to what extent exceptive allegations may be employed to bring before the court facts not found within the four corners of the libel, in an attack upon its legal sufficiency.

The Treaty of Peace between the United States and…