OTIS v. INTERNATIONAL MERCANTILE MARINE CO.

No. 8611.

95 F.2d 539 (1938)

OTIS et al. v. INTERNATIONAL MERCANTILE MARINE CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

March 22, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chalmers G. Graham and Clarence G. Morse, both of San Francisco, Cal., and Alfred T. Cluff, of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants.

John C. Packard, of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee International Longshoremen's Ass'n.

Before WILBUR, MATHEWS, and HANEY, Circuit Judges.


MATHEWS, Circuit Judge.

From a decree dismissing, for want of jurisdiction, a libel by James Otis and others (hereafter called libelants) against the owners and operators of the steamship California (hereafter called respondents) and against the ship and 4,216 stems of bananas comprising part of its cargo, libelants have appealed.

On October 23, 1936, Elliott Shipping & Land Company, for the account of libelants, shipped on board the California, at the...

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