Where interrogatories fall into distinct categories — such as those seeking admissions of fact and those seeking clarification of a pleaded case — the court may test each category by different criteria and allow interrogatories in one category notwithstanding that those in the other are oppressive. A party that denies vicarious liability for the acts of persons from whom information was acquired need not answer interrogatories based on that information unless the relationship is first established.
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