Church v. Payne

35 Cal.App.2d Supp. 752 (1939)

ELDON NEWELL CHURCH, Appellant,

v.

MARIE PAYNE, Respondent.

California Court of Appeals.

June 26, 1939.

A. V. Falcone for Appellant.

C. F. Jorz for Respondent.

Shaw, P. J.

Plaintiff seeks to recover from defendant the penalty and damages provided in section 1992 of the Code of Civil Procedure, for disobedience of a subpoena by a witness. The subpoena in question commanded the defendant's attendance before a notary public for the taking of her deposition in behalf of plaintiff in a civil action then pending in the superior court between the same parties. It is not…