NIETES v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD.

No. 27807.

188 F.Supp. 219 (1959)

Iluminado NIETES, Administrator of the Estate of Julito Nietes, deceased, Libelant, v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD., a corporation, William Barna, Elizabeth Martin, Katherin McCarthy, First Doe through Tenth Doe, inclusive, Respondents.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

November 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack H. Werchick and Martin J. Jarvis, San Francisco, for libelant.

Peart, Baraty & Hassard, and Lillick, Geary, Wheat, Adams & Charles, San Francisco, Cal., for respondent.


SWEIGERT, District Judge.

This is a libel in admiralty brought under the Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 761 et seq., (1920), by the father of the deceased child, as administrator of his son's estate. Libellant alleges that decedent became ill while traveling as a passenger on the high seas on board a regular passenger vessel, belonging to respondent shipowner, and that he subsequently died.

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