Kelly v. Maryland Casualty Co.

Opinion No. 2.

MeDOWELL, District Judge.

A trial of this case recently held resulted in a hung jury, and it is expected that the case will be retried. The most important witness for the plaintiff, a woman, testified concerning an alleged robbery of a bank. Counsel for the defendant, desiring to thus impair the credit of the witness, avowed ability to prove by a physician then present that the woman had for about 18 months been addicted to the use of morphine. It sub sequently developed that she used from three to live grains per week. The physician, a rather youthful general practitioner, would…