West Virginia Code § 57-4-4

Circumstances under which deposition may be read in case at law;
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attendance of deponent out of county may be required.
A deposition in a case at law, taken on such notice under the three preceding sections, may
be read in such case, if when it is offered, the deponent be dead, or out of this state, or one
of its judges, 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 out ofe the county in
which the case is pending, or, because of lapse of time or mental infirmity, be unable to
remember any material part of what he had deposed to. But when the ornly ground of reading
a deposition is that the deponent is out of the county, on motion to the court, before the
commencement of the trial, the court may, for good cause shown, require such deponent to
attend in person.

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