Coit v. North Carolina Gold Amalgamating Co.
United States Circuit Court
I» Equity. Motion for rule on defendant to show cause why he should not produce certain books and papers alleged to be in his possession. Complainant filed no affidavit in support of his motion.
1Opinion of the Court
Butler, D. J.,
(orally.) The practice in equity formerly was to obtain information and use of the contents of books and documents in a party’s possession, by bill of discovery, requiring the respondent to set out the contents at large in the answer; as this was found to be laborious, expensive, and tending to encumber the records unnecessarily, it was so changed as to require simply an acknowledgment of the existence and possession of the document, and upon such acknowledgment to obtain their production by motion. Where such information and use were needed in trials at law, the practice was…
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