J. A. Utley Co. v. Saginaw Circuit Judge

This is an original petition for mandamus, designed to review an order for discovery. We directed that the respondent circuit judge , show cause! His return was duly filed.' The' petition and return raise squarely tbe 'issue of “work product” we are to consider in the light of distinctive facts.

The circuit court’s order was entered in 1962, pursuant to then effective Court Buie N.o 40 (1945). It. was common to 2 pending suits for negligence; each suit having arisen out of collapse of the roof of a then under-construction new high school building. The' criticized portion of such order is…