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MOUMDJIS v. SS THE IONIAN TRADER

Nos. 270, 311, 341, 349.

157 F.Supp. 319 (1957)

Albert MOUMDJIS, Libellant, v. Panamanian SS THE IONIAN TRADER, etc., et al., Respondents. George VOKOROKOS, Libellant, v. Panamanian SS THE MATADOR, etc., Respondents. George PAPANTONIOU, Libellant, v. Liberian SS THE AMANDA, etc., et al., Respondents. Burt M. MOREWITZ, Committee of Nikos Theodoratos, Libellant, v. Honduran SS THE ARISTOTELIS, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Newport News Division.

September 24, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morewitz & Morewitz, Newport News, Va., for libellants.

Vandeventer, Black & Meredith, Norfolk, Va., for respondents.

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

The question herein presented concerns the propriety of proving foreign law through the use of Rule 32B of the General Admiralty Rules, 28 U.S.C.A. relating to admission of facts and of genuineness of documents.

In each of the pending cases libellants have filed requests for admission of facts and genuineness of documents, attaching thereto, in one or more of the cases, what purports to be an English translation of a published...

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