DARLING'S ESTATE v. ATLANTIC CONTRACTING CORP.

No. 7824.

150 F.Supp. 578 (1957)

ESTATE OF Mary G. DARLING, James S. Darling, Jr., Ann Darling Tormey, Sarah W. Darling, trading as J. S. Darling & Son, and Severn L. Robbins and Ross W. Robbins, as owners of THE Trawler POWHATAN, Libellants, v. ATLANTIC CONTRACTING CORPORATION and the Norfolk Dredging Company, Inc., in personam, Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

May 1, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vandeventer, Black & Meredith, Braden Vandeventer, Jr., Norfolk, Va., for libelants.

Jett, Sykes & Howell, R. Arthur Jett, Norfolk, Va., for respondents.


HOFFMAN, District Judge.

Contemporaneously with the filing of the libel herein, libellants caused a notice to take depositions to be served upon counsel for respondents. While the notice does not specify whether the depositions are to be in the nature of discovery or de bene esse, proctors for libellants have stated they desired to proceed by way of discovery. In any event the ruling of the Court would be the same.

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