PETITION OF TRAWLER WEYMOUTH, INC.

No. 63-32.

223 F.Supp. 161 (1963)

Petition of TRAWLER WEYMOUTH, INC., for Exoneration from or Limitation of Its Liability as Owner of the F/V WEYMOUTH.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

November 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Hallisey and Hiller B. Zobel, Boston, Mass., for petitioner.

Morris D. Katz, Boston, Mass., for claimant.


WYZANSKI, District Judge.

The issue is whether in a limitation of liability proceeding, pursuant to the Limited Liability Act, 46 U.S.C. §§ 183, 184, and 185, the admiralty court should restrain an administratrix from proceeding with a single state action seeking recovery on three causes of action, one, under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688, for injuries to her decedent, a second, under the same act, for death, and a third, under the admiralty and maritime...

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