PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO. v. LUCAS

No. 160.

258 U.S. 266 (1922)

PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY v. LUCAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 27, 1922.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles J. Heggerty for petitioner.

Mr. Frederick Clayton Peterson for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a libel brought by the respondent to recover $219 for wages, subsistence and medical attendance, the libellant having been left at Honolulu, ill, in the course of a voyage from San Francisco to the Orient and return. The defence is that he was not ill, that ill or well he should have remained upon the vessel, and further that he was discharged, and signed the...

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