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- Title: Compton v. Alton Steamship Co.
- Author : Fourth Circuit United States Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 05, 1979
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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The plaintiff/appellee merchant seaman Compton signed on for a foreign voyage aboard the vessel SS TEX, owned by the defendant/appellant Alton Steamship Co., Inc. but under bareboat charter to Bulk Food Carriers. The foreign voyage terminated at Norfolk, Virginia, on April 14, 1976, at which time the plaintiff was paid all his earned wages and a certificate of discharge from foreign articles was duly entered by a United States Shipping Commissioner. The vessel then entered a shipyard at Norfolk for repairs and remained there until April 20. On that date the plaintiff returned to the vessel and was engaged for coastwise service. The coastwise service ended on June 4, 1976. It seems agreed that the plaintiff was paid his wages for the period from April 20 to June 4, 1976. On October 25, 1976, the plaintiff, through his attorney, made demand on the defendant for payment of "wages plus room and meals allowances" for the six-day period from April 14, 1976 to April 20, 1976, which was the period between the termination of the vessels foreign voyage and the beginning of its coastwise voyage and the period when the vessel was laid up for repairs at the shipyard in Norfolk.