BENOIT v. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY

No. 3635.

251 So.2d 389 (1971)

Stanford BENOIT et al., Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY et al., Defendants-Relators.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

August 16, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Voorhies, Labbé, Fontenot, Leonard & McGlasson by J. Winston Fontenot, Lafayette, for defendants-relators.

Frank M. Brame, of Brame, Stewart & Bergstedt, Plauche, Sanders, Smith & Hebert by Allen L. Smith, Jr., Scofield & Bergstedt by John B. Scofield, Hall, Raggio & Farrar by Richard B. Cappel, Jones, Kimball, Patin, Harper, Tete & Wetherill by John A. Patin, Hunt, Godwin, Painter & Roddy by E. C. Hunt, Jr., Lake Charles, for defendant-respondent.

O. J. Weber, Beaumont, Tex., for respondent-plaintiff.

Raleigh Newman, McLeod & Rozas by William L. McLeod, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-respondent.

Before FRUGÉ, SAVOY and CULPEPPER, JJ.


SAVOY, Judge.

We have granted certiorari to consider the novel question of whether a defendant, in pre-trial discovery, can be compelled to produce evidence of his financial status. The evidence sought to be illicited is the oral testimony of the defendant, Mack Abraham, relative to his finances, and documentary evidence of his financial ability, principally income tax returns and financial statements.

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