Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. v. Byrne

Defendant in error Byrne brought suit against Kaleiki in the District Court of Honolulu and served the navigation company with a garnishee summons in accordance with the local statute. Answering, the company set up that Kaleiki was hired directly by it (not through a shipping commissioner) as a mate on the “Claudine,” plying only in the inter-island coast trade, and asked a discharge because of the- exemption from .attachment of seamen’s wages by § 4536, Rev. Stat. The trial court held that subsequent legislation excluded seamen engaged in such coast- wise trade from the exemption, and…