AGNEW v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES

Nos. 24445-R, 24506-G, 24549-G, 24519-G.

73 F.Supp. 944 (1947)

AGNEW et al. v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, Limited. GRIFFIN et al. v. SAME. FEDERER et al. v. SAME. WHARTON v. SAME.

District Court, N. D. California, S. D.

August 26, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Michelson, of San Francisco, Cal., for certain libelants.

Gladstein, Anderson, Resner, Sawyer & Edises and Harold M. Sawyer, all of San Francisco, Cal., for certain libelants.

Leonard J. Bloom, of San Francisco, Cal., for certain libelants.

Lillick, Geary, Olson, Adams & Charles and James L. Adams, all of San Francisco, Cal., for respondent.


GOODMAN, District Judge.

In these consolidated actions, libelants, who comprised the greater part of a complement of approximately 172 crew members of the merchant ship President Harrison, seek recovery from respondent ship-owner of so-called war risk bonus for the period of their internment on land (December 8, 1941, to August 15, 1945), by the Japanese, during World War II, and during part of their repatriation voyage (i. e. to the 180th meridian) to the United...

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