Platts v. Arney

This appeal presents two questions: (1) Does the contract, upon which plaintiff sues for damages for an alleged breach, fail to meet the requirements of the statute of frauds; and (2) is the expense of a pretrial deposition of a witness (not a party to the action), taken for the purpose of discovery, taxable as costs, when the deposition is only used at trial in the cross-examination of the witness?

We will refer to Willard G. Platts and W. G. Platts, Inc., a Washington corporation, as plaintiff; and to C. F. Arney and Betty E. Arney, his wife, as defendant.

June 21, 1952, plaintiff and…