Cavanaugh v. Starbuck Towing Corp.

CHATFIELD, District Judge.

On exceptions to the libel, the respondent questions the right of the libelants to invoke admiralty jurisdiction in this district by an action in personam, when both parties reside in another district, which happens to be the adjoining district. The record shows no difficulty which would be experienced by the libelants in bringing their action in personam in the district within which they and ffie respondent reside. It is charged that the libelants’ sole motive was to obtain security by way of foreign attachment of the respondent’s vessel, which was then in this…