Huggins v. Follin

OPINION

McCanless, justice.

During the trial of this cause in the Chancery Court at Murfreesboro on June 27, 1973, Jesse W. Huggins II, a witness and one of the parties, refused to produce a written agreement in response to a request therefor by counsel for John W. Spence, an intervening party to the cause. From the record it appears that the document was available to the witness, that he *436could have produced it, and that it may be pertinent to the adjudication of the suit.

The Chancellor orally commanded the witness to produce the document. The witness refused and the Chancellor thereupon…