Park v. Hull of the Edwin Baxter

The claimants having in their answer interposed new matter in avoidance of the allegations of the libel, the libelants propounded interrogatories, under rule 99 of this court, which permitted interrogatories to be propounded by “either party to the other within four days from the putting in of the claim or answer or other pleading.” The claimants, under rule 100, have, objected to these interrogatories on the ground that they are not allowable under the provisions of the twenty-third rule of the supreme court in admiralty. Rule 99 regulated the practice in this district prior to the adoption…