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...
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