Legal Opinion
The Austvard
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided August 12, 1940No. 2432PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
CHESNUT, District Judge.
This case presents a controversy as to seamens’ wages. The motorship Austvard, of Norwegian ownership and registry, arrived at the Port of Baltimore on July 21, 1940. Since then she has been loaded with a cargo of scrap iron destined for some port, in or near England, and is now undergoing certain repairs before beginning the outward voyage. On August 2, 1940, the libelants, constituting nine members of her crew, on the voyage to Baltimore from Limerick, Ireland, and Swansea, England, filed their libel alleging in effect, for reasons stated, that their period of…
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