EX PARTE ABDU

No. 31, Original.

247 U.S. 27 (1918)

EX PARTE ABDU ET AL., PETITIONERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Rule discharged May 20, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Silas B. Axtell, with whom Mr. Vernon S. Jones was on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Robert S. Erskine, with whom Mr. John M. Woolsey was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

In the trial court the petitioners, six in number, Arabian seamen and members of the crew of a British ship, as libellants sought to enforce the payment of one-half their wages in reliance upon the provisions of § 4530, Rev. Stats., as amended by § 4 of the Act of March 4, 1915, c. 153, 38 Stat. 1165. In granting an appeal from a decree dismissing their...

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