Shoemaker v. Elmer
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. This ease was tried at the Atlantic Circuit, before Justice Hendrickson and a jury, and a verdict rendered for the defendant below.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Fort, J.
This was an action against the defendant, a physician, to recover damages for certain injuries resulting from his negligent conduct and unskillful treatment of the plaintiff.
The only assignments of error of importance in the case relate to the admission in evidence, over the objection of the plaintiff, of three questions propounded to the expert medical witnesses called by the defendant in the cause. Questions 1 and 2 will be considered together. They are:
1. “Q. Now, from the statement made by Dr. Elmer as to what the patient said to him as to…
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