
    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.]
    
   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.  