The party to whom interrogatories are delivered is bound to answer them by affidavit. The interrogatories must relate directly to the matters in issue in the suit. After discovery and inspection are made, the next step is to call upon the adversary, by notice in writing, to admit the genuineness of the documents which the other party wants to use at the hearing and to admit facts constituting facts of his case. After this, summons to the witnesses are issued. Summons to a witness is to be served as nearly as may be in the same manner as summons to a defendant.
Courts have certain powers to compel a witness to attend.
The trial is split into two parts. At the first hearing, the parties have to appear in court in person, by a pleader or through some other person who is able to answer all material questions relating to a suit, and to produce in court all documents on which the party intends to rely. The court then frames the issues. It also has the power to amend the issues, frame additional ones, and strike out issues that appear to it to be wrongly framed. In the High Court and the courts of Presidency Towns the hearing is slightly different.