Arthur Anderson and Clatsop Fisheries, Inc., an Oregon Corporation v. Gene R. Nadon, Dorothy Irene Nadon and Jataboro Corporation, a Corporation

HAMLEY, Circuit Judge:

This is an admiralty suit for exoneration from or limitation of liability for damages resulting from a collision at sea. Petitioners for this relief sought and obtained an injunction prohibiting four named respondents from commencing a state court action to recover such damages. Two of the respondents moved for an order dissolving the injunction. The motion was denied whereupon those two respondents took this appeal.

The collision occurred upon the high seas, on December 6, 1964, between two fishing vessels, the F/V EAGLE and the F/V BETTY. The BETTY sank. On June 4, 1965…