The O. M. Arnold

HANEY, Circuit Judge.

New England Fish Company of Oregon owned a vessel which it chartered to New England Fish Company, a Maine corporation. During a voyage from one point in Alaska to another, the vessel sank, and three members of the crew drowned. Personal representatives of the three men were appointed by a proper Oregon court, and suit was filed in the court below against the owner and charterer, of the vessel, to recover for the deaths. The owner and charterer then filed in the court below a petition to limit its liability. The personal representatives then filed answers and claims in the…