Bryant v. Burns-Hammond Construction Co.

The defendant groups some of its exceptions under four assignments of error and abandons several others which were taken on the trial, but were not brought forward in its brief. Eules of Practice, 192 N. 0., 853, 28. In our opinion neither assignment can be sustained.

In the first it is contended that Dr. Brooks was permitted in his direct examination to relate what the plaintiff had told him in reference to his past condition — that, in consequence, the physician’s testimony consisted of a statement of past occurrences which should not have been admitted in evidence. The witness said, “He…