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UNITED STATES v. MARINE COURIER

236 F.Supp. 476 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America and Commodity Credit Corporation, Libelants, v. S.S. MARINE COURIER, her engines, boiler, etc. and Marine Navigation Company, Inc. and Marine Transport Lines, Inc., Respondents.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

December 10, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., for libelants.

Louis E. Greco, Atty. in Charge, Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, New York City, of counsel.

William H. Postner, Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, of counsel.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, for respondents. Ian R. MacLeod, New York City, of counsel.

WEINFELD, District Judge.

The respondents object to libelants' motion for the issuance of letters rogatory upon interrogatories and cross-interrogatories on the ground that only an oral examination of the proposed witnesses will adequately protect their interests. There can be no doubt that face-to-face questioning of witnesses is a more desirable method of eliciting the truth.1 But ofttimes practical consideration compels the litigants...

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