Dame v. Company

The time required to take a party’s deposition is not always limited to an hour, and often a substantially longer time is necessary. If the defendant were to take one or more depositions at nine o’clock in the morning, the plaintiff might be deprived of the opportunity to take his depositions at ten o’clock on the same morning. This is true whether the defendant’s depositions were to be taken in Dover at his office, as his notice stated, or at Exeter as he later offered to do. If the practice advocated by the defendant should prevail, there would be nothing to prevent either party, within the…