Case ID: ad_156/html/0929-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lyon & Healy, Respondent, v. Musical Courier Company, Appellant.
    
      Discovery — examination of party before trial.
    
    Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, entered in the New York county clerk’s office on the 30th day of January, 1913, vacating an order for the examination before trial of the officers of plaintiff and for the production of its books and papers.
   Per Curiam:

Appeal from an order denying defendant’s application for leave to examine plaintiff’s officers before trial and in connection therewith requiring the production of its books and papers. It is unnecessary to examine the merits of the appeal in so far as it pertains to the right of the defendant to examine the plaintiff’s officers, because upon the argument respondent’s counsel consented, in open court, that the order might be reversed and the motion granted to that extent, provided the production of the books and papers was not directed unless such examination showed same to be necessary. The order appealed from, therefore, is reversed and the motion granted, without costs to either party, to the extent of directing the examination of Paul Healy, the plaintiff’s president, James F. Bowers, its secretary, and Marquette Healy, its treasurer, concerning the matters relevant to the issues in the action; that said officers be examined in the order named and on different days; and at the conclusion of such examination, if it appears that the production of the books and papers is necessary, thén defendant may renew its motion for that purpose. Present—Ingraham, P. J., McLaughlin, Laughlin, Clarke and Scott, JJ. Order reversed and motion granted, without costs to either party to the extent indicated in opinion. Order to be settled on notice.