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DILLON v. STRATHEARN S.S. CO.

No. 361.

248 U.S. 182 (1918)

39 S.Ct. 83

63 L.Ed. 199

DILLON v. STRATHEARN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, CLAIMANT OF STEAMSHIP "STRATHEARN."

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 23, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.J. Waguespack and Mr. Silas B. Axtell for Dillon.

Mr. Ralph James M. Bullowa, for Strathearn S.S. Co., submitted.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Brown, with whom Mr. Robert Szold was on the brief, for the United States as amicus curiae.

Mr. Frederic R. Coudert and Mr. Howard Thayer Kingsbury, for the British Embassy as amicus curiae, submitted.

MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

John Dillon, a British subject, filed a libel in admiralty in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida in which he claimed the sum of $125.00, alleged to be due him for wages as a carpenter on the steamship "Strathearn." The District Court dismissed the libel. 239 Fed. Rep. 583. An appeal was taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth...

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