Fels v. Raymond
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, on an account annexed, for goods sold and delivered on May 20, 1881. Writ dated March 16, 1883, and returnable to the Superior Court. Answer, a general denial.
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Contract, on an account annexed, for goods sold and delivered on May 20, 1881. Writ dated March 16, 1883, and returnable to the Superior Court. Answer, a general denial. The plaintiff filed the following interrogatories to be answered by both of the defendants: “ 1. Did not you purchase from the plaintiff, at or about the date specified in the account annexed to the plaintiff’s declaration, the goods specified in said account ? “ 2. Have you paid for them ? “3. Had you not at that time a place of business in New York, as well as in Boston? “ 4. Were you not the defendants in the action…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
Our statutes provide that either party to a civil action may file interrogatories for the discovery of facts material to his case, to be answered on oath by the adverse party, and that “ each interrogatory shall be answered separately and fully.” Pub. Sts. e. 167, §§ 49-60.
Section 57 provides that, “ if an answer contains irrelevant matter, or is not full and clear, or if an interrogatory is not answered, and the party interrogated refuses to expunge or amend, or to answer a particular interrogatory, the court or a justice thereof may on motion order such irrelevant matter to be expunged, or…
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