Legal Opinion
The Albergen
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided May 19, 1915PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit by a seaman for wages against the Dutch steamship Albergen.
1Opinion of the Court
LAMBDIN, District Judge.
This is a libel in rem against a foreign steamship of the Netherlands, brought to recover unpaid wages. The owners of the vessel intervened, and excepted to the jurisdiction of the court, on the ground that article 11 of the Consular Convention between the United Stales of America and the Netherlands, dated and proclaimed August 1, 1879, provided that the District Courts of the United Slates should have no jurisdiction of such matters; said article being in the following language:
“Consuls general, vice consuls general, consuls, vice consuls and consular agents shall…
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