Skarpelis v. Liberian M/T Arthur P.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MacKENZIE, District Judge.

This complaint in admiralty urges that the plaintiff seaman, a Greek National, is entitled to maintain this action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in a dispute over $280.00 in wages allegedly illegally withheld from him upon his discharge from the M/T ARTHUR P. in Spain on March 11, 1968. The vessel is of Liberian registry, is owned by Astrocielo Compañía Naviera, S.A., a Panamanian corporation, and is operated by Atlantic Maritime Enterprises Corporation, a corporation presumably organized in some state…