Wallace v. United Electric Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 91, Jan. T., 1904, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 1, Phila., Sept. T., 1903, No. 1238, setting aside service of bill in equity in case of Allan B. Wallace v. United Electric Company of New Jersey and United Gas Improvement Company. Bill in equity for discovery and an accounting. Motion to set aside service of the bill. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was the order setting aside the service of the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Bbown,
The first prayer of appellant’s bill is for full discovery. Upon *475it he relies for the relief asked for in the second. In praying for this discovery he asks that the United Electric Company of New Jersey “ be required to set forth and discover particularly, the truth of all the matters set out in the said bill, paragraph by paragraph,” as if it had been particularly interrogated thereto. The preliminary decree asked for, and the one first to be made and enforced, if the appellant is entitled to relief, is discovery of the matters alleged to be within the knowledge…
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