District Court, N.D. California April 28, 1955, No. 20807 (In re Ritchie)

' 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 that were due petitioner at the time he left the vessel MS Reef Knot at Yokohama, Japan. 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.