Bryan v. General Electric Credit Corp.

COLEMAN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a default judgment rendered under the authority of Rule 170, T.R.C.P, when the defendant, Bill Bryan, failed to comply with an order entered in response to the “Motion to Produce Documents and Other Items for Inspection and Copying”. The appellant’s principal contention is that the trial court erred and abused its discretion in ordering the production of documents under Rule 167, T.R.C.P., because the appellee’s motion failed to plead good cause as required by said rule.

Bryan is in the business of selling mobile homes to the public. In 1971 he…