Ex Parte Nolen

Petitioner has an action pending seeking damages in counts of slander and libel. J. Hudson Barker was one of the defendants in said cause to whom petitioner submitted a large number of interrogatories under the statute. Section 7764 et seq., Code 1923. A number of these he declined to answer, and upon motion in the trial court his refusal to do so was sustained. Petitioner has pursued the proper remedy by mandamus for a review of this ruling. Ex parte State ex rel. Tuck, 217 Ala. 143, 115 So. 155; Ex parte State ex rel. St. Peters M. Baptist Church, 212 Ala. 365, 102 So. 793.

It is contended…