Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 26. EVIDENCE

CHAPTER 2. SUBPOENAS AND WITNESSES

Part 1. Subpoenas

Disobedience -- Civil Damages

26-2-105. Disobedience -- civil damages. A witness disobeying a subpoena also forfeits to the party aggrieved the sum of $100 and all damages that the person may sustain by the failure of the witness to attend. The forfeiture and damages may be recovered in a civil action.

History: En. Sec. 330, p. 112, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 388, p. 213, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 462, p. 128, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 641, p. 206, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 641, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 662, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 3307, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7981, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 10625, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 1992; re-en. Sec. 10625, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-1501-10; amd. Sec. 545, Ch. 56, L. 2009.