Jackson v. S. S. "Archimedes"

This case presents the question whether § 10 of the Dingley Act of 1884, 1 as amended by the Seamen’s Act of 1916 2 and the- Merchant Marine Act of 1920, 3 applies to the payment of advance wages to seamen on a foreign vessel-in a foreign port.

The petitioners are British seamen, who shipped at Manchester,- England, in May, 1922, on the Archimedes, a British vessel, for a round trip voyage to New York and return. When they signed the shipping articles they received. advances on account of wages, which were cus tomary and sanctioned by the British law. On June 1, the vessel arrived in New York.…