CHAPTER 457

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-318 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the circumstances under which a deposition may be read in cases

at law.
[fH 408]
Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8-313 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 8-313. A deposition in a civil case at law, taken on such notice,
under §§ 8-304, 8-305 or 8-307, may be read in such case if, when it is
offered, the witness be dead, or out of this State, or one of its judges, or a
superintendent of a hospital for the insane distant more than thirty miles
from the place of trial, or a physician, surgeon or dentist, who, in the
regular course of his profession treated or examined any party to the
proceeding and whose office 1s more than twenty-five miles from the place
of trial, or in any public office or service the duties of which prevent his
attending the court, or be unable to attend it from sickness or other
infirmity, or be more than a hundred miles from the place of trial. But *
on motion to the court, before the commencement of the trial, it may, for
good cause shown, require such witness to attend in person.