Karlsson v. Wolfson

DEYITT, District Judge.

This is a motion under Rule 34, 28 U.S. C.A., for an order requiring the plaintiff to produce and permit the defendants to inspect and copy plaintiff’s income tax returns.

Plaintiff, a citizen of Sweden and a professional wrestler, has brought action against the defendant hotel company asking for damages in the sum of $500,000 on account of injuries allegedly sustained by him in a fall on the defendants’ hotel stairway on July 5, 1955, at a time when he was a guest at the hotel.

In response to defendants’ motion for the production of his income tax returns, the plaintiff…