Winneshiek County State Bank v. District Court

(dissenting). — I respectfully dissent. If I could look upon the majority opinion as merely settling a question of practice, I would not burden the court and the profession with a dissent.

In the first place, I cannot reconcile the majority opinion with Davis v. District Court, 195 Iowa 688, in which certiorari to test the validity of an'order for the production of documentary evidence was sustained. It is true that the point made there was that the books and papers desired were not sufficiently identified, nor their materiality shown. It is there said that the defendant should not be required…