Van Der Weyde v. Ocean Transport Co.

Petitioner brought this libel in 1931, in the District Court for the Western District of Washington, against the vessel “Taigen Maru,” for personal injuries which he sustained as a seaman in 1922. The vessel was then known as the “Luise Nielsen” and was of Norwegian registry. The respondent, Ocean Transport Cbmpany, Ltd., a Japanese corporation, made claim as owner, and filed exceptions alleging that a final decree had been entered in the District Court for the District of Oregon in 1924 dismissing a libel, for the same cause, on the intervention of the Norwegian consul.

In the present case,…