THE BARBARA CATES

No. 9.

8 F.Supp. 470 (1934)

THE BARBARA CATES.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 27, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. McAvoy, U. S. Atty., of Philadelphia, Pa., for libelant.

Rawle & Henderson, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox, Keating & McGrann, of New York City, for respondent.


DICKINSON, District Judge.

These exceptions raise the question of jurisdiction in admiralty. Whether any complaint is the proper subject of the law maritime, and hence whether it is of admiralty jurisdiction, is a subject, unavoidably or purposely, left murky.

The instant case concerns itself with a collision between a vessel and a construction in navigable waters. The abstract proposition has been well expressed in the phrases that the question turns "upon...

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