Hanson v. Gartland Steamship Co.

CONNELL, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff has moved for production of certain statements of witnesses which were taken by the attorney of defendant Gartland Steamship Company. The witnesses to the alleged accident in suit, Claude A. Goodberry, Alfred Auspsetter, Francis Surwilla, and Homer Buck, are all seamen. Plaintiff’s counsel has been unable to depose or interview personally any of the four, although he has contacted Goodberry and Auspsetter via long distance telephone. The other two, Surwilla and Buck, cannot be found at the addresses furnished by the defendant in response to plaintiff’s…