Jones v. Jones

The instant proceeding presents an interesting situation involving the applicability and effect of the physician-patient privilege.

The action is to annul a marriage upon the ground of fraud. The charge is that, at the time of the marriage, the defendant was pregnant by another than the plaintiff, which fact was concealed by the defendant from the plaintiff. The plaintiff asserts that the parties met in France while he was in the naval service of the United States; that when he returned to this country, courtship continued by mail; that by arrangement the defendant arrived in New York on…