Hipsley v. Hipsley

The plaintiff, a physician, while serving in the armed forces of the United States in the China-Burma-India theatre of operations, personally packed, sealed and mailed, preparatory to returning to the United States, as first-class matter, addressed to himself, a package containing correspondence, among the contents being confidential communications between physician (plaintiff) and patients, case histories and data which form the basis for rendering his bills for the professional services which he has rendered.

In some unexplained manner, this package came to the defendant, his estranged wife,…