Cramer v. Hurt
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cooper Circuit Court — Hon. W. N. Evans, Special Judge. (1) The court committed manifest error: It permitted respondent to testify to what he had learned of appellant’s wife’s condition during a professional examination, and the giving of her purported statements during the same without her permission and over the objections of the appellant. R. S. 1889, sec. 8925; Gartside v. Ins.
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Appeal from Cooper Circuit Court — Hon. W. N. Evans, Special Judge. (1) The court committed manifest error: It permitted respondent to testify to what he had learned of appellant’s wife’s condition during a professional examination, and the giving of her purported statements during the same without her permission and over the objections of the appellant. R. S. 1889, sec. 8925; Gartside v. Ins. Co., 76 Mo. 446; Kling v. City of Kansas, 27 Mo-. App. 231; Underhill o-n Evid., sec. 178. (2) Not simply because the law of public policy prohibits it, nor because the statutes of the State of Missouri…
1Opinion of the CourtBtjegess, J.
This is an action by plaintiff against the defendant, a practicing physician, for damages in the sum of five thousand dollars for producing an abortion upon plaintiff’s wife, Oellantine Cramer, and in so doing using upon her body and womb certain surgical instruments, by reason of which she became greatly wounded and diseased of her body, sick, and her life endangered, and she wholly unable to perform her domestic duties, as his wife', and to give him such social companionship and to perform such social and conjugal duties as he is entitled to from her, and for moneys expended ,by him for…
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