Beach v. Oil Transfer Corp.

Plaintiff instituted suit to recover the unpaid balance allegedly due him for engineering investigative services rendered to defendant. Said services had been performed in determining the cause of an explosion and in substantiating defendant’s claim for damages in its lawsuit against the tort-feasor brought in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

The plaintiff herein caused subpoenas duces tecum, returnable on the date set for trial, to be served upon (1) the defendant’s general counsel, (2) the defendant itself and (3) the firm of attorneys who had represented the…