Dykema v. Liggett Drug Co.

KNIGHT, District Judge.

Plaintiff moves for an order directing the defendant to answer this interrogatory: “Is the defense of this suit being conducted by and at the expense of Vick Chemical Company and are the attorneys acting for the defendant in this suit employed to act in this suit by Vick Chemical Company?”

This court has heretofore passed on the question of the right to an answer to questions to the same effect. Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. v. Neupert Products Corporation (D.C.) 7 F.Supp. 362. The interrogatory was disallowed.

On the same day in which the answer was filed in this suit, a…