Wallin v. Keegan

This is an interlocutory appeal in a seamen’s wage claim suit from an order dismissing the shipowner’s counterclaims and treating them as affirmative defenses. Because we find that this court has no jurisdiction to review the actions of the trial court at this point in the litigation, the appeal is dismissed.

Seamen Thomas and James McCrory and Solve Roger Wallin, filed an action in rem against the M/V “Jupiter” for unpaid wages due for services performed as master, mate and engineer respectively. The defendant-shipowner answered and counterclaimed against all three plaintiffs for damages…