In re Complaint of China Merchants Steam Navigation Co.

MEMORANDUM

TENNEY, District Judge.

Plaintiff moves herein, pursuant to Rule 30(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Rule 5 of the Civil Rules of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, for an order directing that certain depositions should not be taken, or, in the alternative, that said depositions be taken only in New York City, New York, or at a later date on the West Coast with claimants prepaying plaintiff’s travel expenses and reasonable counsel fees.

This litigation involves the loss of the S.S. HAI CHANG, a Nationalist Chinese flag vessel, in the…