Higbee v. American Foreign Steamship Corp.

BARD, District Judge.

This is a seaman’s action in admiralty to recover wages, subsistence and vacation bonus allegedly due the libellant by reason of his wrongful and improper discharge as master of the respondent’s vessel, the S. S. “James Roy Wells.” On the basis of the pleadings and the testimony, I make the following special

Findings of Fact.

1. The libellant is David D. Higbee, a resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey.

2. The respondent is American Foreign Steamship Corporation, a New York corporation which owns and operates the S. S. “James Roy Wells.”

3. The libellant is a master mariner,…