492.340. Deposition shall be submitted to witness for examination--signing of deposition. - Missouri Statutes

Deposition shall be submitted to witness for examination--signing ofdeposition.

492.340. When the testimony is fully transcribed thedeposition shall be submitted to the witness for examination andshall be read to or by him, unless such examination and readingare waived by the witness and by the parties. Any changes inform or substance which the witness desires to make shall beentered upon the deposition by the officer with a statement ofthe reasons given by the witness for making them. The depositionshall then be signed by the witness, unless the parties bystipulation waive the signing or the witness is ill or cannot befound, or is dead or refuses to sign. If the deposition is notsigned by the witness, the officer shall sign it and state on therecord the fact of the waiver or of the illness, or death orabsence of the witness or the fact of the refusal to signtogether with the reason, if any, given therefor; and thedeposition may then be used as fully as though signed, unless ona motion to suppress the court holds that the reasons given forthe refusal to sign requires rejection of the deposition in wholeor in part.

(L. 1943 p. 353 § 144)