Case ID: misc_197/html/0580-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Taylor, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sundell Company, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Pioneer Building-Loan & Savings Association of Troy, Defendant. 
    Supreme Court, Special Term, Albany County,
    February 6, 1950.
    
      William K. Sanford for plaintiff.
    
      Murphy, Aldrich, Guy, Broderick & Simon for defendant.
   Taylor, J.

The plaintiff seeks “ an order directing the taking of the testimony of the defendant corporation by the oral testimony under oath of Paul V. Martin as a former officer and employee of the defendant corporation * * *” upon matters

specifically set forth in the notice of motion. Such may not be ordered. (Cocolicchio v. Emigrant Industrial Sav. Bank, 248 App. Div. 196; McGowan v. Eastman, 271 N. Y. 195; Koolery v. Lindemann, 195 Misc. 218; Civ. Prac. Act, § 289.)

The special circumstances ” which may in an appropriate case render it proper to take a deposition apply only to depositions of a witness. The only requirement for taking the deposition of a party is that it be material and necessary in the prosecution or defense of the action.” (Civ. Prac. Act, § 288; Breault v. Embossing Co., 253 App. Div. 175.) Where the adverse party is a corporation, its testimony may only be taken through the testimony of “ one or more of its officers, directors, agents or employees ” (Civ. Prac. Act, § 289) and former employees or officers are not within the purview of the statute.

The motion is denied, without costs.

Submit order.