¶1TbIAL — PRODUCTION 01' PAVERS — DISCOVERY.
¶2A motion, made under Rev. St. § 724, relating to the production of hooks and writings, to require plaintiffs, the official liquidators of a firm, to produce for defendants’ inspection, to enable them to prepare for trial, all the business books of the firm between certain dates, cannot he allowed. The proper nractice in the case was by a bill of discovery.
¶3*744Shipman, Barlow, and Larocque & Choate, for plaintiff.
¶4Horace Russell, for defendant.
¶6This is an application under the United States Revised Statutes, § 724,1 to require the plaintiff, the official liquidator of Charles Fortin & Co., of Paris, France, to produce for inspection of the defendants, in order to enable them to prepare for trial, all the business books of that firm from the years 1872 to 1878, inclusive. A similar application made in the case of Colgate v. Compagnie Francaise, was denied by Judge Wallace, (January, 1884,) on the ground that the proper practice to obtain such relief in this circuit is by bill of discovery. A statement of the considerations which have induced the adoption of such practice will be found in the report of the same case, upon demurrer to bill of discovery, in 23 Blatchf. 86, 23 Fed. Rep. 82.
¶7•The motion is therefore denied.