McGraw-Edison Co. v. Friedenn

This petition for certiorari was brought to review a ruling of the superior court ordering the petitioner here, as the .defendant in an action of assumpsit pending in that .court, to produce for examination by the plaintiff in that action a number of documents designated in a petition to compel the production of documents pursuant to G. L. 1956, §9-19-23.

We have examined the petition to compel production and the allegations contained therein relating to the relevancy and materiality of said documents to the issues raised in the assumpsit action, and we note also that testimonial evidence was…