Amana Society v. Selzer

Plaintiff, a corporation for profit, brought this action in equity for an accounting against a former purehas ing agent of plaintiff. Paragraph 4 of defendant’s answer as amended, by way of special defense to paragraph 7 of plaintiff’s petition, states the information sought from defendant would tend to incriminate him or expose him to’ public ignominy in violation of rights against self-incrimination guaranteed him by section 622.14, Code, 1954, and the due process provisions of the State and Federal Constitutions, section 9, Article I, Iowa Constitution; section 1, 14th Amendment, United…