Case Name: The Ætna Casualty and Surety Company of Hartford, Connecticut, Appellant, v. The County Trust Company of White Plains, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1936-06
Citations: 248 A.D. 725
Docket Number: 
Parties: The Ætna Casualty and Surety Company of Hartford, Connecticut, Appellant, v. The County Trust Company of White Plains, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 248
Pages: 725–726

Head Matter:
The Ætna Casualty and Surety Company of Hartford, Connecticut, Appellant, v. The County Trust Company of White Plains, Respondent.

Opinion:
In an action brought as subrogee by the surety upon the official bond of the administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of John L, Smith, deceased, to recover the amount of a certain draft collected by the defendant bank for the administrator and allegedly never paid to the administrator or his successor in that office, order granting motion for the examination of Leonard E. Teed as a witness before trial reversed on the law and the facts, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs. The respondent's showing upon the motion wholly failed to demonstrate that the testimony sought to be elicited by the proposed examination was either necessary or material to any affirmative defense alleged in the amended answer, and in the exercise of sound discretion the motion should have been denied. Lazansky, P. J., Carswell, Adel and Taylor, JJ., concur; Davis, J., concurs on the ground that the examination may properly be denied under the circumstances shown in the exercise of discretion.