Merchants' Nat. Bank of Boston v. State Nat. Bank of Boston
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Motion by plaintiffs that defendants be required to produce certain documents or writings in their possession.
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFFORD, Circuit Justice.
Power is conferred upon the circuit court, by the fifteenth section of the judiciary act, in the trial of actions at law, on motion of either party, and due notice thereof being given, to require the opposite party to produce any books or writings in his possession or power, which contain evidence pertinent to the issue in cases, and under circumstances where the party might be compelled to produce the same by the ordinary rules of proceeding in chancery. 1 Stat. 82.
Evidently the word “require,” when taken in connection with the subsequent clause of the same section,…
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