90 A.D. 192
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 15, 1904
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1904-01-15
Appeal by William E. Strong and others from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office' of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of October, 1903, denying the appellants’ motion to compel Frank E. Randall to answer certain questions propounded to him as a witness before a commissioner.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1934
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1904-01-15
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¶1I concur in result of Mr. Justice Hatch’s opinion only. I cannot concur in the doctrine that a citizen of this State when examined before a foreign commissioner can be compelled to answer every question, which the foreign commissioner may hold to be proper, no matter how immaterial or irrelevant or improper it may be.
¶2Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and witness directed to appear and answer as stated in opinion.