McDonald Ex Rel. McDonald v. Moore Sheet Metal & Heating Co.

Upon direct examination of the defendant Kellogg, who was called as a witness for the plaintiff, concerning a conversation with the father of the plaintiff at the hospital, the plaintiff propounded this question: “Did you discuss the hospital bill?” Objection thereto was sustained. If the witness had been permitted to answer, he would have testified, “I paid the hospital bill.” There is no merit in this assignment of error. The fact that the defendant-paid the plaintiff’s hospital bill is not an implied admission of lia bility, and evidence of such payment is not competent, nothing else…