KTISTAKIS v. THE STAR

No. 284.

192 F.Supp. 895 (1961)

Nicholas KTISTAKIS v. THE Steamship STAR.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Newport News Division.

January 5, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burt M. Morewitz, Newport News, Va., for libellant.

Walter B. Martin, Jr., Norfolk, Va., for respondent.


STERLING HUTCHESON, District Judge.

Libellant, who was 53 years old, hired as an oiler on the steamship "Star", of Liberian registry, on December 1, 1952, at New York, and reported for duty at Baltimore on December 2, 1952, at which time he signed the articles under which he was to be paid $110 per month wages. The highest rate of pay at the port of Baltimore at that time of an oiler was $320 per month. The articles recited, in

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