Dalzell v. Valvoline Oil Co.

HULBERT, District Judge.

Libelant claims that his tug sustained injuries to its propeller by striking a sunken pile under water on land belonging to the respondent. The alleged sunken and broken pile was close to one of respondent’s piers at Edgewater, N. J. Respondent stresses the fact that libelant gave no notice of the accident and made no claim until upwards of five weeks after the alleged accident.

This is a motion by respondent to overrule libelant’s exceptions to respondent’s interrogatories, forty in number.

On the motion it was agreed that twenty-eight are to be answered; eight were…