Ex Parte Shepperd

GREENHILL, Chief Justice.

These habeas corpus cases raise a common question concerning the permissible scope of pre-trial discovery in eminent domain proceedings: May the landowner ob*814tain, in advance of trial, appraisal reports prepared by the government’s intended appraisal witnesses relating to other land not the subject of the proceedings in which discovery is sought when the reports were prepared for, and are in the custody of, the government ?

Trial judges in two separate condemnation suits ordered relators, counsel for the condemning authorities, to deliver such reports to the condemnees.…