Ruud v. Hendrickson

Taylor, C.

This is an action for alleged malpractice in which the defendant had a verdict and the plaintiff appealed from an order denying a new trial.

The sole question presented by the bill of exceptions and the assignments of error is whether the court erred in permitting defendant to read extracts from medical works in framing questions asked plaintiff’s expert on cross-examination. Plaintiff bases his claim of error on the ground that medicaí books are not admissible as substantive evidence of the facts therein stated, and that reading these excerpts was, in effect, placing the opinions of…