Lodakis v. Oceanic Petroleum Steamship Co.

WOOD, District Judge.

Respondent in this Admiralty action seeks to invoke this Court’s power to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, or in the alternative, to decline to take jurisdiction of a libel filed by a Greek seaman for wages and maintenance and cure. It seems that the libelant, a citizen of Greece, was injured on October 5, 1962 in international waters aboard the S.S. Michael Carras en route to the United States.

No allegation is contained in the libel1 as to what flag the ship was flying, but libelant’s brief alleges that it carried the Liberian flag. This is directly contradicted by…