State ex rel. Welsh v. Towle

The case is, that the relator, having been duly summoned to give his deposition in a cause in which he was plaintiff, and which was then pending in the Supreme Judicial Court of the county of Buckingham, refused to answer several questions put by the magistrate, upon the ground that his answers would disclose his case *541and the manner he proposed to prove it; and thereupon the magistrate, after having required him to answer, issued an attachment for contempt, upon which the relator was brought before him, and the reasons for refusing to answer considered and adjudged insufficient; and he was…