Weel v. United States

MOSCOWITZ, District Judge.

Two companion applications by libelant seek to have vacated respondent’s notices of taking depositions de bene esse of witnesses in Tennessee and California in an admiralty suit brought in this district and about to be reached for trial, or, in the alternative, that the taking of the depositions be permitted only upon the condition that the respondent pay the expenses of libelant’s proctor, together with a reasonable counsel fee, for attendance at the examinations. The applications were brought on by orders to show cause which stayed the taking of the depositions…