Harrison v. Miller
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Nathan J. Miller and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 31st day of October, 1919, overruling defendants’ objections to questions asked one of defendants in his examination before trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
Upon an examination as an adverse party before trial of a member of a firm of stockbrokers, in an action by a customer, the books of the firm having been produced, the witness was asked to look at one of the books and state the number of *185shares of a certain stock received from the Clearing House on a specified date. This question was objected to “ on the ground that you cannot require the witness to read from a book.” The witness was also asked to look at the same book and state the number of shares of the said stock purchased for plaintiff’s account. The same objection was made.…
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