Ervin v. Quintanilla

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, as libellant in a cause petitory and of possession, civil and maritime, having procured process of seizure again.st, and caused to be seized, a steam vessel of Mexican registry, the San Ricardo, then in the port of Mobile, Alabama, set on foot proceedings to take the depositions of her crew. The United States of Mexico, expressly declining to submit itself to the jurisdiction of the court, appeared specially to suggest to the court; that it was making representations through diplomatic channels to the Government of the United States of America that the San…