Lykes Bros. v. Segari Export & Import Co.

CALL, District Judge.

Lykes Bros., Incorporated, steamship agents of Havana, libeled the American motor schooner Irages, of New Orleans, for advances which they made under a general agreement with the owners to handle vessels of their line of steamships touching at Cuban ports. Thereafter the master and crew of the schooner libeled for their wages. The two libels were consolidated for trial.

Intervening libels were filed by the United States to enforce the collection of a head tax and penalty, based on the allegation that the master of the vessel had brought an alien not entitled to enter into…