Howard v. Orient Mutual Insurance

The motion now made is to suppress depositions taken on a commission issued by the plaintiff, to England, or the answers of a witness to certain interrogatories annexed to such commission.

This action is brought on a policy of insurance, for damages to the plaintiff, for the consumption of merchandise bélonging to him, for fuel to supply the steam engine of the vessel in which they were being carried, which, by stress of weather, was delayed in her voyage, so as to render the consumption of such merchandise, as fuel, necessary.

Certain direct interrogatories annexed to such commission. are…