Smith v. Morrison-Knudsen Co.

HERLANDS, District Judge.

Should plaintiff be permitted to take his own deposition upon written interrogatories submitted to himself, where the reasons advanced for such procedure are (1) that plaintiff will continue to be employed abroad for an indefinite period of time as a supervising electrician at a United States air base being constructed in Spain, (2). that plaintiff would lose his job were he required to leave Spain and appear here, either to take his deposition or to testify at the trial, and (3) that plaintiff woüld be subject to substantial traveling expenses were he required to…