Any party to any civil action or proceeding may compel any adverse party, or any person for whose immediate and adverse benefit such action or proceeding is instituted, prosecuted or defended, to testify as a witness in his behalf, in the same manner and subject to the same rules as other witnesses; provided, that the party so called to testify may be examined by the opposite party, under the rules applicable to the cross-examination of witnesses.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.030
Adverse party may be compelled to testify in civil cases
Known as the Child Victim Witness Protection Law
The act spans §§ 491.010 to 491.725 (67 sections).
Effective: 28 Aug 1939; (RSMo 1939 § 1889); Prior revisions: 1929 § 1725; 1919 § 5412; 1909 § 6356
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.