DeVan v. Tobacco Products Corp.

This is an appeal from an order in a derivative stockholder’s action adjudging the witness George Wattley in contempt for willfully disobeying a prior order of the courts requiring him to be examined before trial and on the examination requiring the production of “ all material or relevant books, papers, records and documents in the possession or under the control of the defendants * * * for use in accordance with section 296 of the Civil Practice Act.” The witness was not a defendant, but was being examined as secretary and treasurer of the two corporate defendants. *344During the course of the…