Brackett v. Woodall Food Products, Inc.

DARR, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs move for disposal of the. defendant’s objections to their Interrogatories 14, 15, 16 and 17.

The objection to Interrogatory 14 is disallowed, and the defendant will answer as to its financial condition, this being a pertinent inquiry where, as here, punitive damages are sought. Dush v. Fitzhugh, 70 Tenn. 307; Cumberland Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. Poston, 94 Tenn. 696, 30 S.W. 1040; Nashville Street Railway Co. v. O’Bryan, 104 Tenn. 28, 55 S.W. 300.

*5Without further discussion on the right to inquire as to damages by discovery methods,sufficient to say that…