Standish v. Newton

This is a tort action for assault and battery, to which reply is made by the general issue and a plea of self-defense. A jury trial resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted.

Doctor Boardman, an expert, was allowed to “read” an X-ray picture of the plaintiff’s skull to the jury; that is to say, he was allowed to. explain to the jury what the X-ray showed. To this the defendant excepted. There was no error in the ruling. The witness was using the picture for demonstrating purposes, and “could rightly point out the things which his practiced eye discovered, so far as they…