In re Buckley

MORTON, District Judge.

This rather interesting case presents the question whether the plaintiff,’who has been appointed by the probate court of Suffolk county, Mass., administrator of ten deceased seamen, is entitled to receive from the clerk of this court certain sums which were paid to the Shipping Commissioner as wages of the decedents and were by the Commissioner deposited here. See Rev. St. §§ 4544 and 4545 (46 USCA §§ 627, 628). The facts are settled by stipulation.

The decedents were members of the crew of the steamship David C. Reed, and were lost when she foundered at sea in October,…