The Apurimac

GRONER, District Judge.

From the Bench: In the Roxen Case, 7 F.(2d) 739, 1925 A. M. C. 190, I dismissed the libel because the cause of action there asserted involved a controversy between the master of the ship and a seaman concerning a matter of internal discipline or discipline aboard the ship. The point involved in that ease was that the Seamen’s Act (38 Stat. 1164) conferred jurisdiction and made it obligatory on the court to-assume jurisdiction. I held to the contrary as to this point. The view that I have always entertained as to the exercise of jurisdiction in eases like this is that…