Williams v. The Welhaven
District Court, S.D. Alabama
In Admiralty. . Libel in rem and in personam. Henry Williams, a citizen of the United States, filed a libel for damages and for wages against the Norwegian steamship Welhaven and her master, claiming that he shipped at Mobile for a round voyage to Tampico, and that on bis arrival in Mobile bay, on the return trip, he was put ashore, manacled, and finally discharged at Mobile, without full pay.
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In Admiralty. . Libel in rem and in personam. Henry Williams, a citizen of the United States, filed a libel for damages and for wages against the Norwegian steamship Welhaven and her master, claiming that he shipped at Mobile for a round voyage to Tampico, and that on bis arrival in Mobile bay, on the return trip, he was put ashore, manacled, and finally discharged at Mobile, without full pay. The Norwegian consul at Mobile, William H. Leinkauf, interposed by petition, setting out that this was a matter within his consular jurisdiction, and that he was engaged at the timé the libel was filed…
1Opinion of the Court
TOULMIN, District Judge.
It has been held that, where an act of congress is in conflict with a prior treaty, the act must control, since it is of equal force with the treaty and of later date, (Steamship Co. v. Hedden, 43 Fed. Rep. 17;) hence the contention of libelant’s counsel could be sustained if the statute which he invokes in this case (Rev. St. §§ 4079-4081) was in conflict with the treaty between the United States and Norway and Sweden, which must govern the action of the court in the matter under considera*81¿Ion, or if such statute had any application to the case at all. But my opinion…
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