Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Geleynse

(after stating the facts). It is first insisted that as matter of law osteopaths are not physicians, hence the answer to questions 17 and 19 are not false. But in both questions the words “physician” and “practitioner” are used, and turning to the act regulating the practice of osteopathy (2 Comp. Laws 1915, § 6740 et seq.) it will be noted that they are referred to in the title as “practitioners” and in the body of the act as osteopathic “physicians.” To the average layman they and the “regulars” are all doctors who are consulted in case of illness, and it is doubtful if he ever makes in his…