Legal Opinion
In the Matter of Jama
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided August 15, 1977No. 327 Seaman-JPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHARLES R. SCOTT, Senior District Judge.
Ahmad Jama was 701/2 years old when he died at sea aboard the African Mercury, in the Azores, on June 24, 1976. He was a citizen of Kenya, East Africa. He had been a seaman and a crewmember of the African Mercury which, at the time of his death, had a United States port-of-registry. The voyage ended on August 17, 1976, when the African Mercury put into port at Jacksonville, Florida.
At that time, the Captain of the ship delivered to the Shipping Commissioner of the United States Coast Guard, the wages, valuables, and personal effects of Ahmad…
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