Case ID: f_151/html/0607-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HOLLAND, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

TELLER v. TONOPAH & G. R. CO.
    (Circuit Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
    February 21, 1907.)
    No. 17.
    Witnesses—ClaTm op Privilege—Disclosure op Personal Appairs.
    A complainant in a suit in equity against a railroad company held entitled to require a witness to disclose the extent of his interest in another corporation which owned a majority of the stock of the railroad company.
    In Equity. On certificate of examiner and exception to cross-interrogatories.
    Wm. Y. C. Anderson, for complainant.
    J. VV. Bayard and J. G. Johnson, for respondent.
   HOLLAND, District Judge.

The witness, Oscar A. Turner, is a director of the Tonopah Alining Company, which is the owner of two-thirds of the stock of the defendant railroad company. This is a controlling interest in the defendant company, and the plaintiff has a right to know the extent of the witness’ interest in the corporation which controls the defendant company. He should therefore answer the question.

As to the cross-interrogatories, the motion of the plaintiff to strike out is refused. Any questions that may be asked which are not relevant to the issue can be objected to, and they will not be considered on final hearing.