Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 15, 1844 (Proprietors of Meeting-House v. Pierpont)

Wilde, J.

This is a bill of discovery, whereby the plaintiffs seek to compel the defendant to disclose certain facts, the proof of which they allege to be material to their defence in an action at law now pending in this court, wherein they have been sued by the present defendant for the recovery of his salary due to him, as he alleges, as their pastor, under the contract between them at the time