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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 421 WITNESSES
421.120 Liability of disobedient witness for costs and damages.
Download pdfand it is shown that the legal fees for travel and one (1) day's attendance were paid or
tendered to him when the subpoena was served, and that he failed to attend without
reasonable cause, the court may summarily order him to pay the party, on whose behalf he
was summoned, the costs occasioned to him by the disobedience of the subpoena, not
exceeding twenty dollars ($20); and he shall also be liable for any damages occasioned by
the failure to attend. Effective: July 1, 1953
History: Transferred 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 1, effective July 1, 1953, from C.C. sec. 536.
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