Ancich v. The Marsha Ann

CARTER, District Judge.

This decision concerns the right of fishermen employed upon a lay plan to maintain a libel in rem and in personam in their own names against a vessel which negligently collided with the vessel on which they were employed, and thereby caused them to lose their share of a prospective catch of fish during the repair of their vessel.

The Bear and the Marsha Ann, fishing vessels of 65 feet and 100 feet in length respectively, collided in the fog two miles off the breakwater of Los Angeles harbor on the morning of November 30th, 1948. Ten days later seven of the fishermen on…