Case Name: MOITEZ v. The SOUTH CAROLINA
Court: Pennsylvania Admiralty Court
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1781
Citations: 17 F. Cas. 574
Docket Number: 
Parties: MOITEZ v. The SOUTH CAROLINA.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 17
Pages: 574–574

Head Matter:
Case No. 9,097.
MOITEZ v. The SOUTH CAROLINA.
[Bee, 422.]
Admiralty Court, Pennsylvania.
1781.
Seamen — Wages*—Government Vessel — Libel.
Mariners enlisting on board a ship of war or vessel belonging to a sovereign independent state, cannot libel against the ship for wages due.
[Cited in Briggs v. Light Boat, 93 Mass. (11 Allen) 180.1
[This was a libel by Pierre de Moitez against the. South Carolina.]
[Reported by Hon. Thomas Bee, District Judge.]

Opinion:
On a plea to the jurisdiction, it was adjudged, that mariners enlisting on board a ship of war, or vessel belonging to a sovereign independent state, cannot libel against a ship for wages due.