Raymond v. Brooks

Van Vorst, J. —

In this case the plaintiff was entitled to the order for examination of the defendant. His affidavit discloses a cause of action; but it is quite clear that, in order properly to prepare his complaint, an examination of the defendant is necessary to ascertain facts to make an orderly pleading in a case of this description, which are necessarily within the defendant’s knowledge, and of which the plaintiff may well be supposed to be, as he claims, ignorant.

But such examination is not to extend, in substance or *384form, to an accounting of the copartnership affairs, which is one of…