E. W. Montgomery Co. v. Gwin

HOLMES, District Judge.

This matter is before me on a motion of the plaintiff to require the defendants to give security for costs, as a condition precedent to a continuation of the hearing now pending before the master to set aside the decree pro confesso heretofore entered. It is alleged by the plaintiff that the defendants, by their attorneys, have unnecessarily delayed the proceedings before the master, and materially increased the costs of the hearing, by dilatory and obstructive tactics in refusing to produce books and papers; in asking witnesses irrelevant and incompetent questions; in…