Central Cross-town Railroad v. Twenty-Third Street Railway Co.

The plaintiffs, a street railway corporation, petition for an inspection and copy of certain books and papers of one of the defendant corporations, upon the averment contained in the petition that such an inspection will disclose certain specified facts material and necessary for the *46establishment of the plaintiffs’ ease. This averment is made merely upon the information and belief of the plaintiffs’ president, who fails to disclose the sources of his information otherwise than by way of inference from the fact that he is himself “ the president of a street railway company and familiar with…