Seaboard Coast Line Railroad v. Smalley

Stolz, Judge.

The defendant appeals from a judgment for the plaintiff in this Federal Employer’s Liability Act action and assigns as error two rulings of the trial court on the admissibility of evidence.

1. The first assignment of error is on the trial court’s excluding defendant’s Exhibit 6, a certified copy of the emergency record, University Hospital, relating to the plaintiff’s treatment.

The exhibit was offered initially under the business records statute (Code Ann. §38-711) as part of the testimony of the Chief Medical Record Librarian of University Hospital, and was objected to by the…