Legal Opinion
The Fort Bragg
District Court, N.D. California
Decided September 25, 1933No. 21474PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KERRIGAN, District Judge.
The petitioner is the charterer pro hae vice of the Fort Bragg. He was sued in the California courts by the claimant, a seaman working on the boat, and judgment was recovered against him. The action was brought under the Jones Act (46 USCA § 688) for *14negligence. Petitioner has appealed from the judgment, and the appeal is now pending. By his petition, petitioner seeks in this proceeding to limit his liability on the judgment to the value of his interest in the vessel as charterer. The matter is before me upon exceptions to the petition, upon motion to dismiss the…
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