Moumdjis v. Panamanian SS The Ionian Trader

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

The question herein presented concerns the propriety of proving foreign law through the use of Rule 32B of the General Admiralty Rules, 28 U.S.C.A. relating to admission of facts and of genuineness of documents.

In each of the pending cases libellants have filed requests for admission of facts and genuineness of documents, attaching thereto, in one or more of the cases, what purports to be an English translation of a published law. In one or more of said cases libellants have also attached a photostatic copy of what purports to be a letter written by a law…