United States v. Compania Transatlantica

WOOLSEY, District Judge.

I grant the claimant’s motion, made on li-belant’s opening, to dismiss this libel.

I. I have already had occasion, in the case of The Alfonso XIII (D. C.) 53 F.(2d) 124, to consider, with a great deal of care, the various sections of the statutes here involved. Inasmuch as the procedural question therein referred to, 53 F.(2d) at pages 125' and 1216, has been waived by the claimant, I am assuming, without investigating the question in any way, that the procedure in rem against the steamship would be supposedly supportable here, as I found it was in the case of The…