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S.S. BETHFLOR v. THOMAS

No. 21876.

364 F.2d 634 (1966)

S.S. BETHFLOR et al., Appellants, v. Joel THOMAS, Appellee. Joel THOMAS, Appellant, v. S.S. BETHFLOR et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 8, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank G. Harmon, R. Gordon Gooch, Houston, Tex., for appellant. Baker, Botts, Shepherd & Coates, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Newton B. Schwartz, Houston, Tex., for appellees.

Before BROWN and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, District Judge.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

The Shipowner, succeeding in its forum shopping by its motion to transfer an admiralty cause from the division where it would be tried by the regularly assigned Judge to a nearby division where it would be assigned by lot for trial by one of four or five Judges,1 complains that the District Court erred in allowing the Libellant to dismiss without prejudice when the intended purpose was to forum shop some more...

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