Legal Opinion
The Leonidas
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided April 11, 1940No. 2396PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHESNUT, District Judge.
The libelants in this case are five Greek seamen who, on January 8, 1940, shipped on the Greek steamer “Leonidas” from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on a voyage to Ireland and return to a port in the United States. The wages for which they contracted were at the rate of about £7 per month, and in addition a war bonus “by the Greek law”. Shortly before embarking at Philadelphia these seamen were in Baltimore, having recently theretofore landed from another Greek ship, and being without employment they applied to the Chancellor of the Greek Legation at Washington, who was…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Canada Malting Co. v. Paterson Steamships, Ltd.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
- The BelgenlandSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Patterson v. Bark EudoraSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Strathearn Steamship Co. v. DillonSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Heredia v. DaviesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1926
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3Cited by6 opinions
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- The PrahovaDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1941
- The AstraDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1940
- Petition of GeorgakopoulosDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1948
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