Legal Opinion
The Strathearn
District Court, N.D. Florida
Decided January 2, 1917PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit by Hugo Ronlund, John Hoikkla, and John Dillon against the British steamship Strathearn.
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPPARD, District Judge.
This case concerns two seamen and a carpenter of the British steamship Strathearn, who assumed that *584they were entitled to invoke the provisions of the new so-called Seamen’s Act of 1915, under which they made demand on the master of the Strathearn for wages under section 4 of the act. Upon the master’s refusal to comply with their demands, they quit the service of the ship and libeled.
The Strathearn arrived in the Port of Pensacola between 5 and 6 o’clock July 31, 1916, and shortly thereafter the libelants left her under the following circumstances:
Hugo Ronlund went…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The BelgenlandSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
3Cited by5 opinions
- The DelagoaDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1917
- The StrathearnCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1919
- Low Ling Sing v. Standard Transp. Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1921
- The SutherlandDistrict Court, D. Maine · 1919
- The TalusDistrict Court, S.D. Alabama · 1917