Ex parte Oliver

Appellant assigns as error here the order of the Common Pleas Court requiring Oliver to produce Standard Oil’s records of post-accident repairs and the denial by the Court of Appeals of the relief sought, without first examining the records to determine their relevancy in the litigation between Frey and Standard Oil.

We have here no question of privileged communications, as between physician and patient or lawyer and client, and no personal privilege such as that against self-incrimination. We are presented merely with the question of whether a witness may refuse on deposition to produce…