Bowdle v. Detroit Street Railway Co.

1. The principal question in this case arises upon the following instruction of the court to the jury:

“I allowed this testimony to be introduced as to the mental condition of this woman for the purpose of showing you, or allowing you to judge, as to how long her husband might be deprived of her society, or of her labor as a wife, in the discharge of her domestic duties in the household, and for no other purpose. You are at liberty to investigate all the proof in this case that has been offered to you as to whether this woman is sane or insane. I charge you that, if you shall find that now…