Wise v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

Rodney, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

The application of the plaintiff, we think, rests in the sound legal discretion of the Court. It is unnecessary for us to consider the limitations existing at common law respecting the production of documents nor to trace the development of equitable Bills of Discovery, nor the statutory equivalents therefor. It is sufficient that the Delaware statute expressly grants to this Court that plenary power theretofore exclusively exercised by the Court of Chancery as to the production of documents.

Our first difficulty arises from the manner in which…