Connecticut Mut. Life Ins. v. Shields

EDELSTEIN, District Judge.

The defendant Shields & Company has moved for the production of certain documents under Rule 34, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A., and under Rule 37(a), to compel answers to certain questions propounded to a witness upon his deposition. The discovery proceedings occur in connection with three unconsolidated actions by investors to rescind their purchases, in November of 1950, of an amount of revenue bonds pertaining to a bridge in Nebraska, on the ground of material misrepresentation. In June of 1953 the plaintiff Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance…