The Katahdin

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

John W. Manns, a seaman on the American steamship Katahdin, was drowned on October 23,1917, as the result of a collision between the Katahdin and the Japanese steamship Tokuyama Maru in the Delaware river. He left Rodell Manns, a minor son, surviving him. On November 8, 1917, Rodell Manns, by his next friend, Robert Hall (a distant relative, a seaman on the Katahdin, and familiar with the facts), filed a libel in admiralty (No. 37 of 1917) in personam against Nippon Tusen Kabushiki, a Japanese corporation, owner of the Tokuyama Maru, to recover for the death of his…