When a mate or seaman is wrongfully discharged, or is driven to leave the vessel by the cruelty of the master on the voyage, it is then ended with respect to him, and he may recover his full wages.
Cal. Harb. & Nav. Code § 869
Mates and Seamen
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.
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