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COMPTON v. ALTON STEAMSHIP CO.

No. 78-1569.

608 F.2d 96 (1979)

Walter L. COMPTON, Jr., Appellee, v. ALTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY, INC., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. King, Norfolk, Va. (Walter B. Martin, Jr., Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Ralph Rabinowitz, Norfolk, Va. (Rabinowitz, Rafal & Swartz, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and COPENHAVER, District Judge, for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiff/appellee merchant seaman Compton signed on for a foreign voyage aboard the vessel SS TEX, owned by the defendant/appellant Alton Steamship Co., Inc. but under bareboat charter to Bulk Food Carriers. The foreign voyage terminated at Norfolk, Virginia, on April 14, 1976, at which time the plaintiff was paid all his earned wages and a certificate of discharge from foreign articles was duly entered by a United States Shipping...

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