KENNEDY, District Judge.
This is a motion to amend a libel in such wise as to include a claim for indemnity. As originally drawn the libel contained only a claim for maintenance and cure.
The power of the Court sitting in admiralty to permit amendments is very broad. See Benedict on Admiralty, 6th Edition, § 355. The only objection urged against the amendment here is that the procter for the libelant is said to have given an assurance to respondent's...
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