Whan v. Green Star S. S. Corp.

With the appellants’ general assertion that the principle of comity requires a federal court, whose receiver has possession of documents, to facilitate in every proper manner the production of evidence required for litigation pending in a state court, we are in thorough accord. See Dier v. Banton, 262 U. S. 147, 151, 43 S. Ct. 533, 67 L. Ed. 915. The existence of a federal receivership should not be allowed to hamper litigants in a state court from securing their evidence, provided production or examination of the receiver’s hooks and papers can be had without interference with due…