Washington-Southern Navigation Co. v. Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co.

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• noting that although “[t]he function of rules is to regulate the practice of the court and to facilitate the transaction of its business,” “no rule of court can . . . . abrogate or modify the substantive law.”
• Court allowed indigent seamen right to proceed under admiralty law because under IFP statute “litigants [were dependent] upon the judicial discretion theretofore incident to leave to sue in forma pauperis”
• discussing Admiralty Rule 50, the forerunner to Supplemental Rule E(7)
• construing predecessor to Rule E(7) under old Admiralty Rules

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