Sturdevant v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

BECKER, District Judge.

This cause is before the Court on defendant’s application for additional time to object to or answer plaintiff’s interrogatories. The application is based on two grounds.

The first ground for the application for extension of time is that defendant initiated proceedings to secure plaintiff’s deposition on oral interrogatories before the plaintiff’s interrogatories to the defendant were propounded by service and filing. In this connection defendant states:

“The rule prevailing in Federal District Courts has, for many years, been that the party first initiating discovery…