Case ID: f-supp_13/html/0555-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "KENNERLY, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE EVANSVILLE.
    No. 356.
    District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division.
    Oct. 24, 1935.
    Arthur J. Mandell, of Houston, Tex., for libelant.
    Fulbright, Crooker & Freeman, and Carl G. Stearns, all of Houston, Tex., for respondent.
   KENNERLY, District Judge.

This is a proceeding in rem by libel-ant against the steamship Evansville to recover wages; libelant having been master of such steamship. Under Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. v. Foster (C.C.A.) 31 F.(2d) 394, Foster v. Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co., 280 U.S. 555, 50 S.Ct. 16, 74 L.Ed. 611, and Warner v. Goltra, 293 U.S. 155, 55 S.Ct. 46, 79 L.Ed. 254, I think a master has no maritime lien for wages. It is not shown in this case that libelant has a lien under the laws of Texas.

Since libelant has no lien, this proceeding in rem may not be maintained, and it will be dismissed.