Legal Opinion
Miles v. M/V HANSA CALEDONIA
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided August 20, 2002No. 402CV078PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDENFIELD, District Judge.
I. BACKGROUND
In this in rem admiralty, in personam diversity case, defendant MW Hansa Caledonia and its owner, Schiffahrts-Gesells-chaft “Hansa Caledonia” MBH and Co. KG (Schiffahrts), 1 move to strike plaintiff Shawn Miles’s jury trial demand. Doc. ## 11, 17. Miles, a stevedore foreman injured aboard the vessel, brings one common-law negligence claim against both vessel and owner on a joint and several liability theory. Doc. # 4 ¶ 16.
However, plaintiff wants to simultaneously try his in rem claim (against the vessel) to the bench and his at-law (in personam)…
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