Hawkins v. McCain

Assignments of error Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 are based on like numbered exceptions to the exclusion of evidence by nonexpert witnesses as to what advice they gave the plaintiff upon observing her condition, and the reason for offering such advice. These witnesses were permitted to testify as to the plaintiff’s physical appearance before she took the Fowler’s solution, as well as during the time she was taking it and immediately thereafter. However, the court sustained the defendant’s objections to their proposals to testify that they advised her to stop taking the medicine “because it seemed…