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IN RE SCOTT'S PETITION

No. 20841.

143 F.Supp. 175 (1956)

Petition of George W. SCOTT, for an Order Setting Aside the Charge of Desertion and Returning his Wages and Effects, etc.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

August 8, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., Keith R. Ferguson, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., Reed M. Williams, Atty., Dept. of Justice, San Francisco, Cal., for the United States.

Gladstein, Andersen, Leonard & Sibbett, San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner.

OLIVER J. CARTER, District Judge.

Petitioner is a seaman who seeks to recover a sum on deposit in the Registry of this Court, the sum represents wages which were due petitioner at the time he left the vessel S. S. Sonoma at Auckland, New Zealand. The master of the vessel logged petitioner as a deserter and paid his wages into the Registry of the Court, pursuant to 46 U.S.C.A. § 706. That section provides that wages forfeited for desertion are applied first to...

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