O'HARA v. LUCKENBACH S.S. CO.

No. 224.

269 U.S. 364 (1926)

O'HARA ET AL. v. LUCKENBACH STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 4, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.W. Hutton, for petitioners.

Mr. Peter S. Carter, with whom Messrs. Louis T. Hengstler and Frederick W. Dorr were on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioners, libellants below, quit the service of the steamship company and sought to recover their earned wages on the ground of a violation of § 2 of the Seamen's Act of March 4, 1915, c. 153, 38 Stat. 1164, copied in the margin.1 Omitting the various provisions with which we are not here concerned, the pertinent requirement of...

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