Rolim v. Axtieb

CAMPBELL, District Judge.

This is a motion for an order amending the notice of appeal. Libelant, a Brazilian seaman, employed on the Swedish vessel Knappingsborg, filed a libel against that vessel to recover $75,000 for injuries alleged to have been sustained on board that vessel.

The Swedish consul intervened and requested this court not to take jurisdiction of the libel, on the ground that the Knáppingsborg was a Swedish vessel, and that the controversy was, therefore, one between a seaman employed on a foreign vessel and his employer, the shipowner, and on the further ground that insurance…