AGNEW v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES

No. 11943.

177 F.2d 107 (1949)

AGNEW et al. v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LIMITED, et al.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

As Amended May 6 and 18 and September 9, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Michelson, San Francisco, Cal., for appellants.

Lillick, Geary, Olson, Adams & Charles, Ira S. Lillick, and James L. Adams, San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and STEPHENS and ORR, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree denying to appellants, unlicensed sailors on the Steamer President Harrison, an emergency wage increase and maintenance while interned by the Japanese for some three years and nine months, until August 15, 1945, after the Japanese capture, on December 8, 1941, of the steamer in the waters off the coast of China, they having traveled on her from San Francisco to Manila and...

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