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3 Citing cases

  1. Hickman v. Taylor

    153 F.2d 212 (3d Cir. 1945)   Cited 48 times
    In Hickman v. Taylor, 3 Cir., 153 F.2d 212, affirmed 329 U.S. 495, 67 S.Ct. 385, the court reversed an order which held a party in contempt for refusal to produce certain pretrial memoranda on the ground that the direction on which the contempt order was based was not authorized by the rules.

    For federal decisions to the same effect, which arose later, see note 63 of the same article. More recent federal cases, contra, are: Walling v. R.L. McGinley Co., D.C. E.D.Tenn. 1943, 4 F.R.D. 149; United Mercantile Agencies v. Silver Fleet Motor Express Inc., D.C.W.D.Ky. 1941, 1 F.R.D. 709; Fort Wayne Corrugated Paper Co. v. Anchor Hocking Glass Corp., D.C.W.D.Pa. 1940, 4 F.R.D. 328; Welty v. Clute, D.C.W.D.N.Y. 1939, 29 F. Supp. 2. A case that attempts to steer a middle course between the opposing shores of opinion is Pierce v. Submarine Signal Co., D.C.D.Mass. 1939, 25 F. Supp. 862.

  2. Vermilyea v. Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co.

    11 F.R.D. 255 (W.D. Mich. 1951)   Cited 4 times

              The object of Rule 34 is to make relevant and nonprivileged documents and objects in the possession of one party to an action available to the other party, thereby eliminating strategic surprises and permitting the issues to be simplified and the trial to be expedited. Hickman, Administrator, v. Taylor, 329 U.S. 495, 67 S.Ct. 385, 91 L.Ed. 451; Olson Transp. Co. v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc., D.C., 7 F.R.D. 134; Walling v. R. L. McGinley Co., D.C., 4 F.R.D. 149; Leach v. Greif Bros. Cooperage Corporation, D.C., 2 F.R.D., 444; 2 Barron & Holtzoff, Federal Practice and Procedure, page 484, § 791. The rule authorizes a broad sweep of access, inspection, examination, copying, and photographing of documents or objects in the possession of the opposite party.

  3. Walling v. R.L. McGinley Co.

    74 F. Supp. 988 (E.D. Tenn. 1944)   Cited 1 times

    Injunction granted in part and denied in part. See also, D.C., 4 F.R.D. 149. TAYLOR, District Judge.