General Houses Inc. v. Marloch Manufacturing Corp‪.‬

The action before us, in which jurisdiction rests on diversity of citizenship as to the defendant-respondents and on federal question jurisdiction as to the other defendant, 50 U.S.C.Appendix, §§ 1821, 1832, U.S.Code Cong.Service 1946, pp. 199, 206, is for breach of contract, for inducing a breach of contract, and for a declaratory judgment as to the present validity of a security assignment by the plaintiff to one of the defendants before us. The defendant-respondents sought to examine plaintiffs "President or other officer * * * having knowledge of the facts" under Rule 30(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A. Upon plaintiffs failure to produce in accordance with the demand, the District Court dismissed its complaint with prejudice as to the defendant-respondents under Rule 37(d), subsequently entering a final order under Rule 54(b) upon a finding of no just cause for delay.