Curtis v. United States

McLELLAN, District Judge.

Annexed to the libel, which alleges a collision between the libellant’s yacht and the respondent’s steamship, is a set of interrogatories, to three of which (Nos. 5, 7 and 8) the respondent excepts. The libellant asks that the respondent be required to answer them.

The 5th interrogatory reads: “If your answer to the preceding interrogatory (which preceding interrogatory asks whether there was a collision) is in the affirmative, please state the point at which such collision occurred, giving either latitude and longitude or distance and bearing from some recognized…