KTISTAKIS v. LIBERIAN S.S. STAR

No. 8566.

304 F.2d 356 (1962)

Nikolaos KTISTAKIS, Appellant, v. LIBERIAN S.S. STAR and National Shipping and Trading Corporation, and Star Steamship Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 28, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Walter B. Martin, Jr., Norfolk, Va. (Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and BELL, Circuit Judges.


J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge.

Appeal by the Libellant, Ktistakis, from a decree of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The decree awarded maintenance and cure but dismissed the other causes with prejudice, expressly holding that the provisions of Title 46 U.S.C.A. § 564, which set up certain standards for Shipping Articles, did not apply to invalidate Articles signed by a foreign seaman with a foreign vessel at a port of the United States...

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