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NEILSON v. RHINE SHIPPING CO.

Nos. 393, 394.

248 U.S. 205 (1918)

NEILSON ET AL. v. RHINE SHIPPING COMPANY, CLAIMANT OF THE SAILING SHIP "RHINE." HARDY ET AL. v. SHEPARD & MORSE LUMBER COMPANY, CLAIMANT OF THE BARKENTINE "WINDRUSH."

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 23, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mr. Roscoe H. Hupper for respondents.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Brown, with whom Mr. Robert Szold was on the brief, for the United States as amicus curiae:

MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases were considered together in the courts below and may be disposed of in like manner here.

The facts are:

In the first case Paul Neilson and nine other seamen sue for the recovery of wages claimed to be due them from the bark "Rhine." It appears that they shipped on the American bark "Rhine" at Buenos Ayres, October 7, 1916, for a voyage to New...

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