WILBUR, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty sustaining appellee's exceptions to the appellant's libel in rem, which raised the question of the jurisdiction of the admiralty court over the tort upon which the appellant based her action.
The appellant was a passenger on the Admiral Peoples, and was injured while disembarking from the vessel by falling upon the dock as she attempted to step from the gangplank. The negligence complained...
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