Pettersen v. The Bertha Brovig

CLANCY, District Judge.

This is a motion by the respondent addressed to the Court’s discretion requesting that jurisdiction of libellant’s claim be declined. The action is for damages for personal injury brought in admiralty by a citizen of Norway now a resident of Mexico against a vessel of Norwegian registry owned and operated under' the Norwegian flag >by a Norwegian corporation. The vessel is in drydock at Bremen, Germany, and its crew dispersed. The libellant’s claim is for damages sustained as a seaman on respondent’s vessel through its alleged unseaworthiness. Libellant signed on the…