Act No. 190 Section 406

Witness not obliged to go outside his province to testify.

Section 406

SEC. 406. Witness not obliged to go outside his province to testify. — A witness is not obliged to attend as a witness in a civil action before any court, judge, justice, or other officer out of the province in which he resides, unless the distance be less than thirty miles from his place of residence to the place of trial by the usual course of travel, but his testimony may be taken in such case in the form of a deposition.

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