Kloeckner Reederei Und Kohlenhandel, G.M.B.H. v. A/s Hakedal. The Western Farmer

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in the admiralty, dismissing the libel in a suit in personam for the loss of a cargo of coal. Judge Clancy refused to assume jurisdiction over the suit because, being between two foreign corporations, “the most just disposition” could be made in the English courts of admiralty. The libellant, a German corporation, had laded the coal upon the steamer, “Western Farmer,” owned by an American corporation, bound from Norfolk, Virginia, to Bremerhaven, West Germany. In the British Channel the “Bjorgholm,” a ship of the respondent, a Norwegian…