Petition of Georgakopoulos

WELSH, District Judge.

The Consular Representative of the Consulate General of Greece petitioned this Court for an order for the arrest and removal of - four Greek seamen from the - vessel S/S “syros” now in the Port of Philadelphia, for repatriation to Greece to answer charges of offenses against the Penal and -Disciplinary Code of the Merchant Law of Greece. The seamen’s exceptions to the petition on the ground of lack of jurisdiction were dismissed, whereupon they sought a writ of prohibition in the Circuit Court precluding this proceeding.

The Circuit Court declined to pass upon the…