Manacher v. Central Coal Co.

In this stockholders’ derivative action certain defendants appeal from so much of an order at Special Term as directs the examination before trial of all corporate defendants through one officer, and as requires examination pursuant to the general language of rule 121-a of the Rules of Civil Practice rather than upon specific items or matters, and directs the production of books and records in general terms. Plaintiff cross-appeals from so much of the order as defers the examination of the other six individual defendants until a later showing of necessity.

*210The right to obtain pretrial…