Section 2.11 Deposition Step

• Library: Discovery 2015

Once an expert is identified in answers to interrogatories as a potential trial witness, that expert’s deposition may be taken to obtain the facts and opinions to which the expert is expected to testify. An expert may be prevented from testifying at trial to matters or opinions that were not revealed in a pretrial deposition, especially if prejudice to the deposing party can be shown. State ex rel. State Highway Comm’n v. Pfitzinger, 569 S.W.2d 335 (Mo. App. E.D. 1978). Thus, in Commercial Distribution...