11-49-7 - Right to inspect papers.
§ 11-49-7. Right to inspect papers.
Every attorney or counselor at law, practicing in any court in this state, shall be allowed, at all reasonable times, to inspect the papers and records relating to any suit in such court in which he may be concerned as attorney or counsel, without being compelled to take copies thereof. A clerk of any court may permit an attorney to take out of the office the papers in which he is interested, under such regulations as the court or the law may prescribe.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 26, art. 3 (16); 1857, ch. 9, art. 8; 1871, § 2251; 1880, § 2407; 1892, § 220; 1906, § 227; Hemingway's 1917, § 204; 1930, § 3707; 1942, § 8679.