THE KATAHDIN

No. 35 of 1917.

4 F.Supp. 180 (1933)

THE KATAHDIN. THE TOKUYAMA MARU.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

February 16, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. W. H. Cox, of Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioner.

H. Alan Dawson, of Philadelphia, Pa., for libelant and cross-respondent.

Burlingham, Veeder, Fearey, Clark & Hupper, of New York City, and Howard M. Long, of Philadelphia, Pa., for respondents and cross-libelants.


KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

John W. Manns, a seaman on the American steamship Katahdin, was drowned on October 23, 1917, as the result of a collision between the Katahdin and the Japanese steamship Tokuyama Maru in the Delaware river. He left Rodell Manns, a minor son, surviving him. On November 8, 1917, Rodell Manns, by his next friend, Robert Hall (a distant relative, a seaman on the Katahdin, and familiar with the facts), filed a libel in admiralty (No. 37 of...

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