The Katahdin

(after stating the facts as above).

Perhaps it is true that rule 54 of the Admiralty Rules is not exhaustive of all cases in which a petition of limitation will lie. Ex parte Slayton, 105 U. S. 451, 26 L. Ed. 1066; In re Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co. (D. C.) 223 Fed. 185, 190-193; The Enterprise (D. C.) 196 Fed. 404, 410. Yet in cases where the rule provides for jurisdiction I cannot agree with the ruling in The Enterprise, supra, that this court has the power to dismiss the petition, because the case is a hard one. In the case at bar the vessel has been three times libeled, once in…