The Kaiser Wilhelm II
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Thos. G. Haight, iJudge. Libel by Barland & Wolff, Limited, against the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II. From a decree dismissing the libel (230 Fed. 717), libel-ant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
In this case, Harland & Wolff, Limited, a British corporation, filed a libel against the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II, owned by the North German Lloyd, a German corporation, for repairs made to that vessel in libelant’s shipyard in England. By its answer, the North German Lloyd admitted the admiralty jurisdiction of the court below in the premises, but contended such jurisdiction should not be exercised in the present instance, because the countries of both litigants were at war with each other, and that prior to the filing of this libel the Imperial Government of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Irvine v. the HesperSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
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