Prudential Steamship Corp. v. Curtis Bay Towing Co.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

Respondent has moved to vacate libel-ant’s notice to take pretrial depositions of the master, mate, engineer and two deck hands of the tug “Cove Point”, for the purpose of discovery. The collision out of which this suit in admiralty arose occurred while that tug was helping to undock libelant’s steamship “Newberry Victory” in Baltimore harbor, and the master of the tug was allegedly on the ship, directing her maneuvers, leaving the mate in charge of the tug. The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York, and was removed here at the request of respondent, for its…