Legal Opinion
Alltmont v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 3, 1950No. 10019PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARIS,'Circuit Judge.
The question with which we are confronted at the outset in this appeal, and the only one which we find necessary to decide, is whether copies of statements of prospective witnesses taken by a party to an admiralty suit may be obtained by the adverse party by interrogatories served under Admiralty Rule 31, 28 U.S.C.A., without a prior showing of good cause therefor.
In the consolidated admiralty suits now before us, which were brought by two seamen against the United States and the United States Maritime Commission for personal injuries, the libellants served…
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