Legal Opinion
Morris & Co. v. Skandanavia Ins.
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided February 12, 1927PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLMES, District Judge.
This is an action at law on a policy of insurance against a nonresident corporation. Section 1938 of the Mississippi Code of 1906 (section 1598 of Hemingway’s Code) provides:
“If the testimony of a party to the suit who resides out of the state be desired by the adverse party, interrogatories to him may be filed in the clerk’s office, and a copy thereof, with notice of filing, shall be given the party, or his attorney or solicitor; and if he fail to answer such interrogatories within a reasonable time, his plea shall be dismissed, if he be plaintiff or complainant, and…
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