Carnie v. Murphy
Indiana Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Vanderburgh Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtFrazer, J.
— In this case, husband and wife sued a physician for malpractice in the treatment of a diseased eye of the wife, the action sounding in tort. The court below refused to allow the wife to testify as a witness for the plaintiffs. The only question in the case is as to the correctness of this ruling. I am of the opinion that it was. correct, under the statute which prevents husband or wife from feeing a witness for or against each other, and that the judgment should be affirmed.
Ray, J.
— I think that the ruling of the court below in excluding the evidence.of the wife was correct. The judgment…
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