Louisville & N. R. v. Deutsche Dampfschifffarts-Gesellschaft

ERVIN, District Judge.

This was.a suit commenced by attachment in the circuit court of Mobile county, Ala., by the plaintiff, a Kentucky corporation, against the defendant, a foreign corporation, incorporated in Germany, on a cause of action arising out of a tort alleged to have been committed by one of defendant’s ships in Pensacola., Fla.

The case was removed from the state court to this court, and the defendant appeared specially in this court and moved to quash the writ of attachment issued in the circuit court of Mobile county and the levy of attachment on the ship belonging to the…