Helgesen v. United States

McLEAN, District Judge.

This is a suit in admiralty for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s intestate. Libellant moves to vacate respondent’s notice of the taking of the deposition of a witness in San Francisco, California, on May 12,1966, or in the alternative, for an order requiring respondent to pay the transportation expenses of libellant’s proctor from New York to San Francisco and return.

The deposition is to be taken de bene esse, pursuant to Sections 863, 864 and 865 of the Revised Statutes which still apply to the taking of depositions in admiralty. Libellant has advanced no valid reason…