Hirsch v. Glidden Co.

COXE, District Judge.

These are motions by the defendant (1) to strike out the plaintiff’s demand for a jury trial and to transfer the action to the nonjury calendar, and (2) to vacate the plaintiff’s notice to take the deposition in New York City of William O’Brien, a vice president of the defendant who resides in Cleveland, Ohio, where the defendant’s place of business is located, and to direct that his deposition be taken, if at all, on written interrogatories, or, in the alternative, in other suggested ways specified in the notice of motion.

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff was the…