Vilsack v. General Commercial Securities Corp.

At the trial of an action at law before a jury, one Bernard Baker, a representative of the defendant corporation, General Commercial Securities Corporation, was' in the Court room sitting by his counsel, when it became material for the plaintiff to call him as a witness concerning a certain feature of the plaintiff’s proof.

Counsel for the defendant objected to Baker being called to testify, on the ground that he had not been subpoenaed to testify and that his witness fees as required by the statutes, and his mileage from his residence in Jacksonville, had not been tendered to him. The Court…