GRINNELL CORPORATION d/b/a GRINNELL FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEMS COMPANY, INC., a Delaware corporation, Petitioner, v. THE PALMS 2100 OCEAN BOULEVARD, LTD., a Florida Limited Partnership, Respondent., 924 So. 2d 887
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The trial court granted the partnership's motion to compel and overruled the corporation's work product objections. The interrogatories filed by the partnership disclosure of discoverable facts under Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.280(b)(1). Without violating the work product privilege, a litigant could be required in an interrogatory to specify the facts supporting a claim or defense. Hence, the trial court's order requiring greater specificity in answering the interrogatories was proper, so that there was no departure from the essential requirements of law. But, the appeals court quash that portion of the trial court's order directed at the response to request for production requiring the corporation to: (1) label the documents already produced and support them as a broad general view, and (2) identify the pages of deposition testimony that supported various affirmative defenses, as such required the corporation to go beyond what was required in Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.350(b).