Citro Chemical Co. of America v. Bank Line Ltd.

HULBERT, District Judge.

These are two motions to sustain exceptions of libelant — one in each of the above cases — to interrogatories which in the Citro case are (a) Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and (b) 2, 18, 19, 20, 21a, 21b and 22; the latter group being identical with the exceptions in the Duffus case, Nos. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7a, 7b and 8.

There has long been a disparity in rulings of different judges upon exceptions to interrogatories in Admiralty, owing, perhaps, to the variation in the form of the questions, as well as the view point of the individual judge, but a number of active…