Havermeyers & Elder Sugar Refining Co. v. Compania Transatlantica Espanola

The libelant propounded interrogatories, in the libel under rule 23, calling for the production of any letters, cablegrams, or correspondence between the respondents and their, agents, or the master, relating to the damage to cargo, which forms the subject-matter of litigation. To these interrogatories the respondent objects as unauthorized. Rule 23 of the supreme court, in admiralty, provides that ,,the libelant may require the defendant- to answer all interrogatories “touching all and singular the allegations in the libel.” The interrogatories must be confined, therefore, to the allegations…