Section 3.37 Use by the Answering Party

• Library: Discovery 2015

Generally, the answers are not admissible on behalf of the answering party. See 23 AM. JUR. 2DDepositions and Discovery § 131 (Westlaw through 2015 legislation). Thus, in Stallman v. Hill, 510 S.W.2d 796, 798 (Mo. App. W.D. 1974), it was held that the answering party’s own answers to interrogatories were, under the facts of that case, self‑serving extrajudicial statements and were not admissible. In Brown v. Upjohn Co., 655 S.W.2d 758, 759–60 (Mo. App. E.D. 1983), it was held that a party may not rely on...