Dixon v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for tbe Third District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Sang'amon county, the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding. At the January term, 1895, of the circuit court of Sangamon county, the case of Olive Purdy against the city of Springfield was on trial. It was a suit for damages for injury caused by a defective sidewalk.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for tbe Third District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Sang'amon county, the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding. At the January term, 1895, of the circuit court of Sangamon county, the case of Olive Purdy against the city of Springfield was on trial. It was a suit for damages for injury caused by a defective sidewalk. The appellant, Dr. J. N. Dixon, was called as an expert witness on the part of the city, and testified that he was a physician and surgeon; that he had practiced, as such, twenty-one years, and nineteen of them in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The question in this case is, whether a physician, who has been subpoenaed and is interrogated as an expert witness only, can be punished as for a contempt for refusing to testify, when no compensation, greater than that allowed to an ordinary witness, has been paid to him or promised to him.
The question here involved has never been directly decided by this court. In Wright v. People, 112 Ill. 540, a physician, before appearing as a witness, had visited a patient professionally, and had stated while testifying as a witness without any objection on his part the condition of the patient, whom…
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