Hine v. Superior Court

JACOBSON, Judge.

This special action questions the propriety of the trial court’s order relieving the real parties in interest from answering certain interrogatories upon the basis that “said number of interrogatories are [sic] prima facie excessive, oppressive and unfair.”

The petitioners, O. H. Hine and Mary Hine, are defendants in an action brought by Robert F. Otondo and Mary Otondo, real parties in interest. Pursuant to Rule 33, Rules of Civil Procedure, 16 A.R.S., the defendants submitted to the plaintiffs and their attorneys 146 separate interrogatories, many with subparts, which…