Case Name: George Derby White, Respondent, v. Improved Property Holding Company of New York, a Corporation, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1909-10
Citations: 134 A.D. 948
Docket Number: 
Parties: George Derby White, Respondent, v. Improved Property Holding Company of New York, a Corporation, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 134
Pages: 948–948

Head Matter:
George Derby White, Respondent, v. Improved Property Holding Company of New York, a Corporation, Appellant.
Discovery—examination before trial.
Appeal from an order of the Special Term, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day "of June, 1909, denying a motion to vacate an order for the examination of certain officers, servants and agent of the defendant to enable plaintiff to frame a complaint.

Opinion:
Clarke, J.:
The moving papers affirmatively establish that the plaintiff has all the information necessary to enable him to frame his complaint. Therefore, he needs no examination of the defendant for that purpose and the order appealed from was improvident. (Waitzfelder v. Moses Sons & Co., 120 App. Div. 144; Matter of Gardner, 124 id. 654; Rosenthal v. Jackson, 125 id. 895.) After the issue is joined, if it become necessary to examine the defendant for the purpose of obtaining evidence necessary and material for use upon the trial, a proper application for such relief can be made. The order appealed from should be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion granted, with ten dollars costs. Ingraham, Laughlin, Houghton and Scott, JJ., concurred. Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion granted, with ten dollars costs.