therefrom. 2. When, from age, infirmity, or imprisonment, the witness is unable to attend court, or is dead. 3. When the testimony is required upon a motion, or in any other case where the oral examination of the witness is not required.
Commence taking, when.Sect. 353. Either party may commence taking testimony by depositions, at any time after service upon the defendants.
Subdivision 2.—Officers who may take them.
Taken by whom in territory.Sect. 354. Depositions may be taken in this territory, before a judge or clerk of the supreme court, the district court or county court, before a justice of the peace, notary public, mayor, or chief magistrate of any city or town corporate, or before a master commissioner, or any person empowered by a special commission; but depositions taken in this territory, to be used therein, must be taken by an officer or person whose authority is derived within the territory.
Taken by whom out of territory.Sect. 355. Depositions may be taken out of the territory by a judge, justice, or chancellor of any court of record, a justice of the peace, notary public, mayor or chief magistrate of any city or town corporate, a commissioner appointed by the governor of this territory to take depositions, or any person authorized by a special commission from this territory.
Officer taking must not be interested.Sect. 356. The officer before whom depositions are taken, must not be a relative or attorney of either party, or otherwise interested in the event of the action or proceeding.
Commissions may be granted to take depositions, by whom and how.Sect. 357. Any court of record of this territory, or any judge thereof, is authorized to grant a commission to take depositions within or without the territory. The commission must be issued to a person or persons therein named, by the clerk, under the seal of the court granting the same, and depositions under it must be taken upon written interrogations, unless the parties otherwise agree.
Subdivision 3.—Manner of taking and authenticating them.
