Laury v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance

A reargument was granted upon two questions:

"(a) Did the court err when charging that the jury should not consider the recitals in the proofs of death from the attending physician of what others had related to him as evidence of the facts told?

"(b) Did the court err in excluding statements made by relatives of the insured, other than plaintiff, to the attending physician, when requesting him to furnish proof of death regarding symptoms of epilepsy manifested by the insured previous to the issuance of the policy?"

The answers depend upon the situation of the case when the trial court was called…