Ex parte Wood

SIMPSON, Justice.

Petitioner, W. T. Wood, is the defendant in a pending action wherein Winston White, plaintiff, sued petitioner on the common counts (1) on an account stated, (2) for money loaned, and (3) for money had and received. The defendant in answer to these several counts of the complaint, in addition to' the plea of the general issue, interposed several special pleas averring in substance that the demand or contract sued on was based in whole or in part on a gambling consideration.

Certain written interrogatories were propounded by the petitioner to the said plaintiff, as áuthorized…