Lamar v. St. Mary's Hospital Corporation

It is true that our discovery statute, G eneral Statutes § 52-197, is remedial in character and must therefore, of necessity, be liberally construed with the thought in mind that there is tp be provided thereby a more speedy and less expensive method than other proceedings — for instance, in equity or by deposition. Yet, however expedient the vehicle, even the provisions for discovery as contained in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have their boundaries and limitations, which include, inter alia, that an examination of this nature is not to be proposed in bad faith or so as to annoy,…