Wheeler v. West India S. S. Co.

S. H. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

Defendant moves for an order directing the issuance of a commission to take the depositions of three witnesses in France on written interrogatories. Plaintiff opposes this application unless defendant pays the expenses of plaintiff’s attorney in traveling to and from France so that he may cross-examine the witnesses orally.

This is an action under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff while he was in the employ of defendant as Second Assistant Engineer on board the S. S. Lou Gehrig.,…