MAHLUM v. CARLSON

No. 17111.

304 F.2d 285 (1962)

Walter MAHLUM, Appellant, v. Robert O. CARLSON and the OIL SCREW YUKON, her boilers, engines, appurtenances and equipment, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

June 7, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bell, Sanders & Tallman, and Bailey E. Bell, William H. Sanders, and James K. Tallman, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellant.

Arthur D. Talbot, and Hughes & Thorsness, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellees.

Before BONE, CHAMBERS and HAMLIN, Circuit Judges.


CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

Upon a dispute from Alaska arising out of the injuries of a seaman, Mahlum, on a fishing boat, the Oil Screw Yukon, we are asked to define the nature and extent of proper jurisdiction of the former United States District Court for the Territory of Alaska during the period January 3, 1959, to February 20, 1960, when it lingered on adjudicating cases after statehood as it was authorized to do by the Alaska Enabling Act, Public Law 85-508, 48...

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