60 How. Pr. 143 | New York Court of Common Pleas | 1880
Under the former practice which recognized law and equity as two distinct systems, it was no objection to a bill of discovery that it sought to obtain evidence to be used in an action founded on a tort (Gelston agt. Hoyt, 1 J. C. R., 543; Skinner agt. Judson, 8 Conn., 528). But,