Clinton

On January 11,1956, the district court entered its orders dismissing appellant’s first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth causes of action asserted in his libel in admiralty. The order of dismissal of the eighth cause of action was based on the ground “that the tort upon which the eighth cause of action is based is not a maritime tort” and thus “not within the admiralty jurisdiction of this Court.”

The appellant appealed to this Court from said order of dismissal in respect to the first, second, third and eighth causes of action. The trial court’s order of dismissal was affirmed March 24, 1958, and rehearing was denied April 21, 1958. Clinton v. International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots of America, Inc., 9 Cir., 254 F.2d 370 . In connection with the eighth cause of action, this Court stated at page 372:

After the lapse of more than one year, and on July 29, 1959, appellant moved the district court to amend the order dismissing the eighth cause of action “to allow an Second Amended Libel of the Eighth Cause of Action which will be properly alleged as a maritime tort under the Admiralty Extension Act, ‘46 U.S.C.A. 740’.” [sic] On July 30,…