Case Name: DEXTER v. SULLIVAN
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1851
Citations: 7 F. Cas. 625
Docket Number: 
Parties: DEXTER v. SULLIVAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 7
Pages: 625–625

Head Matter:
Case No. 3,868.
DEXTER v. SULLIVAN.
[Brunner, Col. Cas. 585;
14 Law Rep. 455.]
Circuit Court, D. Rhode Island.
1851.
Practice—Production- of Papers in Cause in State Court.
The federal courts will not grant a subpoena duces tecum for the purpose of bringing up the original papers in a cause in a state court.
During the progress of the cause, Burgess, for defendant, applied for a writ of subpoena •duces tecum, to have the original papers in a case in the supreme court of Rhode Island brought into the circuit court.

Opinion:
THE COURT
refused the application, on the ground that it would not make a demand on another court, which would not be granted if made to this court, it being a rule of the circuit court not to allow original papers to go out of the clerk's office.