Colin v. Thompson

WHITTAKER, District Judge.

This action, one in negligence seeking damages for a bodily injury, is now before me upon defendant’s motion to require plaintiff to sign his deposition, as originally given, or to submit to further examination at his costs, and to extend defendant’s time to plead until plaintiff’s deposition be finalized.

It appears that counsel for defendant took plaintiff’s deposition in this cause, before a notary who was also the reporter, on September 8, 1954; that in due course the deposition was transcribed, but the original, instead of being retained by the notary-reporter…