Buttner v. Adams
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. lyibcl by Eouis Buttner against Mary A. Adams and others. From a judgment of dismissal, libelant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GIEBERT, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, a seaman, while at sea and employed on a vessel of the Pacific Shipping Company, a California corporation, received personal injuries through the alleged negligence of the shipping company. To recover damages therefor, *106he filed in the court below a libel in personam against the stockholders of the shipping company, stating therein the names of the stockholders and the number of shares held by each, alleging the injury he had received through the negligence of the shipping company, and alleging further that on April 3, 1913, he had filed a complaint in the…
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