Case Name: COMMONWEALTH TITLE INS. & TRUST CO. v. BELL, Clerk
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1901-01-03
Citations: 105 F. 548
Docket Number: 
Parties: COMMONWEALTH TITLE INS. & TRUST CO. v. BELL, Clerk.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 105
Pages: 548–549

Head Matter:
COMMONWEALTH TITLE INS. & TRUST CO. v. BELL, Clerk.
(Circuit Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
January 3, 1901.)
Records of 'Federal Courts — Judgment Indices — Right of Examination.
A corporation engaged in the business of insuring titles is entitled to permission to inspect the judgment indices kept by a clerk of a circuit court of the United States, in relation to transactions which are at the time depending-,; under proper regulations and restrictions.
J. B. McPherson, District Judge, dissenting.
See (C. C.) 87 Fed. 19.
John GL Johnson, for complainant.
Wm. M. Stewart, Jr., and James B. Holland, for respondent.

Opinion:
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
A decree may be prepared and submitted ordering the defendant'to permit properly authorized representatives of the plaintiff to* inspect and examine the judgment indices and cross indices kept by the defendant as clerk of this court, in such way and manner as will enable the plaintiff to prosecute its business as an insurer of titles, but subject to the following restrictions, to wit; (fj Th.e inspection and examination must in each instánce relate and be confined to a transaction or transactions which at the time being shall be current or depending; (2) they shall be made only at such, times and under such circumstances as will not interfere with the, clerk or his assistants in the discharge of their duties, or with the exercise of the right of any other person or persons to have access to said indices and cross indices.
J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge, dissents.