Mazzaro v. Paull

The plaintiffs, wife and husband, appeal from jury verdicts for the defendant physician on claims for injuries to the wife and consequential damages to the husband resulting from the physician’s alleged negligence in the performance of a hysterectomy operation. The appeal was entered in the Appeals Court, and we transferred the case here. G. L. c. 211A, § 10 (A).

The sole issue presented is the validity of the trial judge’s exclusion from evidence of a copy of the Directory of Medical Specialists (directory), also known as Marquis Who’s Who, Inc., which the plaintiffs sought to introduce to…