Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-09-24 02:18:55.623831+00
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On Petition for Rehearing
PER CURIAM.
Higa was granted a rehearing to determine whether the order of the district court dismissing his case without prejudice to file an action in admiralty should be set aside and the case remanded to the admiralty docket of the court below.1 On appeal this court agreed with the view of the trial judge that an action under the Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 761 et seq., could be brought only in an admiralty action. Higa raised for the first time in his petition for rehearing the question of whether the case should have been dismissed or transferred to the admiralty docket. Generally one may not enlarge the scope of an appeal in a petition for rehearing. Jaynes v. United States, 9 Cir., 224 F.2d 367; Mitchell v. Gree-nough, 9 Cir., 1939, 100 F.2d 1006.
 There is no reason to depart from that rule here. Higa’s attorney was warned of the possibility that the period of limitation might run while his appeal was pending here. He could have filed an action in admiralty without affecting his right to appeal.
We find no reason to disturb our decision of December 15, 1955, and it remains unaltered.

. This court may so remand in an appropriate case. See Twin Harbor Stevedoring &. Tug Co. v. Marshall, 9 Cir., 1939, 103 F.2d 513; Kobilkin v. Pillsbury, 9 Cir., 1939, 103 F.2d 667.