Gitto v. "Italia", Societa' Anonima Di Navigazione

MOSCOWITZ, District Judge.

The defendant seeks an open commission to take the oral depositions of various persons in Italy, the place of the accident upon which this action is founded. The plaintiffs ask that the commission issue only upon the condition that they be advanced the sum of $5500 by the defendant to cover the expenses of their attorney in traveling to and about Italy in connection with the cross-examination of witnesses whom defendant will seek to examine.

The new rules make liberal provisions for the taking of oral depositions which may now be used as freely as written…