The Seirstad

MOSCOWITZ, District Judge.

This is a motion by respondent, requesting that this eoui-t make an order declining to assume jurisdiction of tbe action and'dismissing the libel herein. Tbe claimant is joined in this motion by the consul general in New York of the kingdom of Norway.

Osmund Andersen, a citizen of Norway, the libelant herein, claims that on or about tbe 33d of July, 1923, while engaged as a seaman on board the steamship Seirstad, a vessel of Norwegian registry, and during the course of Ms employment wMle at work upon said vessel he received injuries, wMeh, he claims, were due to the…