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STRATHEARN S.S. CO. v. DILLON

No. 373.

252 U.S. 348 (1920)

STRATHEARN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED, v. DILLON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 29, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Ralph James M. Bullowa, for petitioner, submitted:

Mr. George Sutherland and Mr. W.J. Waguespack, with whom Mr. Silas B. Axtell was on the brief, for respondent.

Mr. Frederic R. Coudert and Mr. Howard Thayer Kingsbury for the British Embassy, by special leave of court.

The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. A.F. Myers, was on the brief, for the United States, by special leave of court.

MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

This case presents questions arising under the Seamen's Act of March 4, 1915, c. 153, 38 Stat. 1164. It appears that Dillon, the respondent, was a British subject, and shipped at Liverpool on the eighth of May, 1916, on a British vessel. The shipping articles provided for a voyage of not exceeding three years, commencing at Liverpool and ending at such port in the United...

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