United States Steel Products Co. v. Adams

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

By duly signed shipping articles, dated New Orleans, La., November 29, 1921, the appellee was employed as an oiler on board the steamship Steel Trader “from the port of New Orleans to Pirseus, Greece, and East Indian ports, and such other ports and places in any part of the world as the master may direct, and back to a final port of discharge and/or loading ports on the Atlantic or Gulf Coast in the United States, for a term not exceeding 12 calendar months” — his wages, being at the rate of $80 per month. After the articles were signed the following provision,…