Legal Opinion
Ling v. 1,689 Tons of Coal Lying Aboard S. S. Wilhelmina
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided October 7, 1942No. 14329PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
BOWEN, District Judge.
On December 7, 1941, the .Steamship “Wilhelmina” with a Japanese owned cargo of 4500 tons of coal sailed from Muroran for Nagoya, Japan. The next day, upon learning through the vessel’s radio of the outbreak of the present war in the Pacific, the master of the vessel deviated her voyage, and with the approval and assistance of the crew put the vessel and cargo into Dutch Harbor, Alaska, on December 26, 1941. On February 20, 1942, the vessel with a portion of the cargo arrived at Seattle.
For their assistance the crew were promised certain remunerations, but not having…
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