Pennsylvania R. v. United States

KENNEDY, District Judge.

The libel alleges that libelant owns the scow P. & M. No. 3 which, on April 6, 1943, was moored at the end of Pier 1, Bush Docks, Brooklyn, N. Y., with her starboard side to the pier. Libelant says that at about ten in the morning two Army tugs landed a tow outside of scow P. & M. No. 3 and negligently collided with her port side, giving her serious damage.

Libelant has propounded interrogatories, ten in number, to all of which respondent has excepted on three grounds: (1) Because they seek to elicit matters not properly within the scope of interrogatories, (2) because…