PIKNA v. THE TELFAIR STOCKTON

No. 5875.

174 F.2d 472 (1949)

PIKNA et al. v. THE TELFAIR STOCKTON et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

May 17, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney H. Kelsey, Norfolk, Va. for appellants.

Leon T. Seawell, Norfolk, Va. (Hughes, Little & Seawell, Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellees.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal in a suit instituted by 17 seamen of the vessel Telfair Stockton, which docked at Norfolk after a voyage from the Pacific Coast, to recover under 46 U.S.C.A. § 596 for delay in the payment of wages and also to recover damages for alleged refusal to permit libellants to reship for another voyage. The trial judge found that the failure to make payment within twenty-four hours was not without sufficient cause (see Collie v. Ferguson...

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