Travelers Insurance v. Bailey

(After stating the foregoing facts.) If the statements which were taken from the claimant at the hospital, the first two days after he was injured, and the second at the Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta some two weeks after he was injured, were' introduced for the purpose of impeaching the testimony of the claimant, such statements, as a matter of law, cannot have this effect. Section 38-1803 of the Code provides in part as follows: “A witness may be impeached by contradictory statements previously made by him as to matters relevant to his testimony and to the case.” An examination of the…