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53 F.R.D. 480

White v. Beloginis

U.S. District Court

Decided September 13, 1971

U.S. District Court · decided 1971-09-13

Relies on Woods v. Kornfeld · Wolf v. United Air Lines, Inc. · Willys Motors, Inc. v. Northwest Kaiser-Willys, Inc.

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Decided 1971-09-13

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PIERCE, District Judge.

¶1MEMORANDUM OPINION

¶2Plaintiff here moves pursuant to Rule 37(a) (2)-(4) of Fed.R.Civ.P. for an order compelling defendant to answer interrogatories one through twelve; to provide plaintiff with copies of documents requested in interrogatories three through twelve; and to pay plaintiff $100.00 for expenses incurred in' bringing this motion as a result of defendant’s prior refusal to answer adequately these interrogatories.

¶3Defendant responded to three of the twelve interrogatories posed to him, numbers one, two, and eight. The Court finds these answers incomplete and evasive.

¶4Defendant objected to the remaining nine interrogatories, numbers three through seven and nine through twelve. These objections are framed so as to appear to fall within the scope of permissible refusals to answer. They are, however, interposed in the form of broad generalized labels and are wholly unsupported or clarified by a memorandum of law or other document. Since these objections are not comprehensible to the Court on the basis of the record before it, the Coui’t finds that they are analogous to general objections which have been universally held to be impermissible. See, e. g., Commercial Union of America Corp. v. New York & Cuba Mail S. S. Co., 24 F.R.Serv. 33.514, Case 1 (S.D.N.Y.1957); Wolf v. United Air Lines, Inc., 9 F.R.D. 271 (M.D.Pa.1949); Woods v. Kornfeld, 9 F.R.D. 196 (M.D. Pa.1949).

¶5Therefore, plaintiffs’ motion to compel answers to interrogatories one through twelve and to require production of copies of the documents requested in interrogatories three through twelve is granted in part and denied in part as follows:

¶6Interrogatory number 1: Granted, defendant to limit his answer so as to refer to only those months in 1969 preceding the transaction in question.

¶7Interrogatory number 2: Granted, within the limits of question #1 as modified above.

¶8Interrogatory number 3: Granted. Defendant must provide identifying information only; financial data may be omitted.

¶9Interrogatory number 4: Granted, within the limitation of number 3 above.

¶10Interrogatory number 5: Granted, within the limitation of number 3 above.

¶11Interrogatory number 6: Granted, within the limitation of number 3 above.

¶12Interrogatory number 7: Granted. Defendant must provide the requested information only as it relates to the ninety day period preceding July 2, 1969.

¶13Interrogatory number 8: Granted.

¶14Interrogatory number 9: Granted.

¶15Interrogatory number 10: Granted.

¶16Interrogatory number 11: Denied, except as to the actual seller in the transaction in question.

¶17Interrogatory number 12: Denied, except as to the sales person actually involved in this transaction.

¶18Furthermore, in light of the fact that defendant’s intransigence in responding to the interrogatories necessitated the bringing of this motion, the Court awards plaintiff $100.00 for reasonable expenses (see affidavit of Eric Schnapper, Esq.) incurred in obtaining this order. See, e. g., Lizza & Sons, Inc. v. Diminico & Pallotta, Inc. 23 F.R.D. 143 (D.Mass.1959); Willys Motors, Inc. v. Northwest Kaiser-Willys, Inc., 18 F.R.D. 473 (D.Minn.1956).

¶19So ordered.

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