Opinion
Hartman & Hartman, of Seattle, Wash., for libelant.
Bronson, Robinson & Jones, of Seattle, Wash., for respondent.
NETERER, District Judge.
Interrogatories calling for evidence must be confined to testimony necessary to the proof of the libelant's case (Prince Line, Ltd., v. Mayer & Lage, Inc. (D.C.) 264 Fe. 856), and may not be used merely to fish into the evidence which the interrogated party may produce in support of its own allegations (The Princess Sophia (D.C.) 269 F. 651). See also The Hewitt (D.C.) 284 F. 911, American Maritime Cases (1923) 89.
The exceptions must be sustained, except to the supplemental interrogatory as to the longitude and latitude in which the storm occurred.