Geare v. United States Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of tbe district court for Ram.sey county, Brill, J., denying a motion for a new trial, after a verdict in favor of plaintiffs for $3,730.91.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The defendant offered to prove by the attending physician of the insured that in November, 1890, he bad certain diseases. The court excluded the evidence as inadmissible under the .statute. G-. S. 1894, § 5662. The defendant admits that the evidence was within the statute, and was inadmissible, unless the patient had waived his privilege; and the plaintiffs admit that a patient may waive this privilege. Hence the only question is whether the injured had waived it.
The policy in suit was issued in February, 1889. The application ■of the insured for the policy, which was made a part of the…
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