Canada Malting Co. v. Paterson Steamships, Ltd.

These three libels in admiralty in personam were brought in the federal court for western New York, by owners of cargo laden on the steamer “ Yorkton ” to recover for loss resulting from the sinking of that vessel in a collision with respondent’s steamer “ Mantadoc,” in Lake Superior, on the American side of the international boundary line. The respondent moved, in. each case, that the District. Court exercise its discretion to decline jurisdiction and dismiss the libels on the ground that all the parties were citizens of Canada and that the controversy concerned “ matters . . . properly the…