State ex rel. Wilson v. Copeland

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION

This is an original action in prohibition. The sole question before the court is whether the respondent exceeded his jurisdiction in ordering production of documents pursuant to Rule 58.01 because the requests were over broad in that the documents and other things requested were not designated with the reasonable certainty required by Rule 58.01(b),1 which in pertinent part reads as follows:

“... The request shall set forth the items to be inspected either by individual item or by category, and describe each item and category with reasonable par-ticularity_”…