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JACKSON v. S.S. ARCHIMEDES

No. 103.

275 U.S. 463 (1928)

48 S.Ct. 164

72 L.Ed. 374

JACKSON ET AL. v. S.S. "ARCHIMEDES."

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1928.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Silas B. Axtell, with whom Mr. John W. Davis was on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Roscoe H. Hupper, with whom Messrs. Van Vechten Veeder and William J. Dean were on the brief, for respondent.

Mr. Howard Thayer Kingsbury, with whom Mr. Frederic R. Coudert was on the brief, as amici curiae by special leave of court, on behalf of the British Embassy.

MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the question whether § 10 of the Dingley Act of 1884,1 as amended by the Seamen's Act of 19152 and the Merchant Marine Act of 1920,3 applies to the payment of advance wages to seamen on a foreign vessel in a foreign port.

The petitioners are British seamen, who shipped at Manchester, England...

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