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FEDERAL REPORTER.
Shipman, Barlow, and LarocqUe Homce Russell, for defendant.
Choate, for plaintiff.
LACOMBE, J. This 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 applicawas denied by tion made in the case of Colgate v. Compagnie 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 sama case, upon demurrer to bill of discovery, i9 23 Blatchf. 86, 23 Fed. Rep. 82. The motion is therefore denied.
TOPLITZ and others v. MILLER and others, and Thirty Other Cases. (Oirouit Oourt, S. D. New York. November 1,1887.) COURTS-FEDBRAL CmculT COURTS-PRACTICE-CALENDAR.
The rule of October 1, 1887. for the government of the calendar of the circuit court for the Southern district of New York, provides that caoes must be tried when reached in their regular order according to date of issue and place on the calendar. Held, on motion to stay the trial of certain cases for the term, on the ground that a case pending in the supreme court involved the same issues, that the. rule would not be departed from where the affidavit for the purposes of the motion filed by the defense denied the identity of the issues.
Actions to Recover Excess of Duties Paid under Protest. to stay trials for the term.
On motions
Stanley, Clark & Smith and Hugh J. Begly, for complainants. Stephen A. Walker, U. S. Atty., and Wm.. Wickhnm Smith, Asst. U. S. Atty., for defendants. LACOMBE, J. Motions are made by the plaintiffs in these several cases for orders staying the trial of these cases for the present term. The single upon which these motions are made is that" plaintiffs' counsel, from an examination of the papers, and from statements made by plaintiffs' attorneys and others, including some of the plaintiffs, is satis1 Rev. St. U. S. 724: "In the trial of actions at law, the courts of the United States may, on motion and due notice thereof, require the parties to produce books or writings in their possession or power, which contain evidence pertinent to the issue, in casE'S and under circumstances where they might be compelled to produce the same by the ordinary rules of proceeding in chancery. If a rlaintiff fails to comply with such order, the court may, on IIlotion, give the like .judgment fur the defendant as in cases of nonsuit; and if a defendant fails to comply with such order, the court may, on motion, &ive judgment against him by default."
M'DONALD V. COOPER.
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fied and verily believes that the same issue is presented in these cases as in the suit of Vietor v. Arthur, now pending in the supreme court;" the question involved in said last-mentioned suit being in respect to "caps, gloves; leggins, mitts, socks, stockings, woven shirts and drawers, and similar articles made on frames and worn by men, womenl and children." The district attorney contends, however, that the issues in these several cases are not identical with those presented in Vietor v. Arthur. He submits an affidavit in which it is stated that, in four of the cases, some portion of the plaintiffs' claim is based upon goods composed. in part, of silks; that in more than ten of the cases the sufficiency of the preliminary step taken by the various plaintiffs is questioned; that in four of the cases, in which a commission has been issued to take testimony in Scotland, the goods upon which the plaintiffs' claim is based are Scotch caps, which, it is claimed, were knit by hand or woven in looms, and not made on frames; that in six other cases the goods are caps made in a like manner to those last referred to; and, finally, that, irrespective of any question of classification of the goods, the sufficiency of the steps necessary to betaken by the plaintiffs in order to maintain their suit is in every instance questioned by the defendants. This court will not try the subsidiary question whether the issues in these cases are identical with those in another case, upon affidavits, and in advance of the trial. The facts lipon which the" motion is made being in dispute, no sufficient cause is shown for modifying the rule laid down on October 1,1887, for the government of this calendar"namely, that cases must be tried when reached in their regular order according to date of issue and place on the calendar. .
McDONALD 11. COOPER.
(Ui'l'cuit Oowrt, D. Oregon.
November 28, 1887.)
1.
WRIT-PUBLICATION-AFFIDAVIT.
An affidavit for an order for service of summons by publication must contain some evidence having a legal tendency to prove that the defendant could not be found in the state after due diligence, and the mere assertion of the fact is insufficient. But a statement of facts as to residence and actnal abode of the defendant, which shows, beyond a peradventure, that any search for him within the state would be unavailing, is sufficient.
I. 8. 4.
SAME.
And where it is necessary to show that the defendant has property in the state, the statement thereabout should be direct, and specify the property. SAME-PUBLICATION.
A summons published six times in a weekly newspaper is thereby served on t)le defendant after 42 days from the date of the first publication thereof.
(Sll!labu,· b1l the OOU'l't.)