The Havenside

CAMPBELL, District Judge.

Libelant is seeking to recover the sum of $233.30 as wages. The Havenside is a British vessel. Libelant signed articles on her as a donkey-man, and was on board in that capacity when the vessel arrived in New York, on August 26, 1926. On August 29th the libel-ant asked for and received from the captain an advance of $20.

While in the port of New York one of the firemen deserted, and, although there is a sharp conflict in the testimony as to whether the libelant volunteered to get a man, or the master directed the libelant to get a man, to take the deserter’s place, I…