Cost of surplus witnesses paid by whom.

491.370. If either party subpoena more than three witnessesto prove any one fact, or shall subpoena any person or personsand not examine them as witnesses on the trial, he shall pay thecosts occasioned by such surplus or unnecessary witness orwitnesses, unless the testimony of such unexamined witnessesshall be rendered unnecessary by admissions of the opposite partyon the trial.

(RSMo 1939 § 2657, A.L. 1945 p. 765 § 93)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2271; 1919 § 2821; 1909 § 7498