Harlan F. Fecht and Bessie McAllister v. Edmund Makowski and Margaret M. Makowski D/B/A Harbor Lights Motel

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This ease arises out of an accident in which one passenger was killed and another injured when a 17-foot outboard motorboat operated by Edmund Makow-ski struck a submerged object. Makow-ski and his wife, doing business as the Harbor Lights Motel, filed a petition for limitation of or exoneration from liability. The district court entered the usual injunction restraining the institution or prosecution of other suits pending the outcome of the limitation proceeding. The damage claimants filed exceptions to the petition, moving that it be dismissed. The exceptions were…