People ex rel. Robin v. Hayes

The relator, a recent inmate of the penitentiary on Blackwell’s Island, now asks the court to permit a discovery and inspection of certain books and documents in the possession of the respondent, the warden of that institution. The application is a novel one, but I am convinced that there is authority to grant it. Section 803 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as amended September 1, 1913, so as to include the word photograph, provides: “A court of record, other than a justices ’ court in a city, has power to compel a party to an action pending therein, to produce and *264discover, or to give to the…