Lockwood v. McCaskill

Referring to the deposition statute, G.S. 8-71, this Court in Yow v. Pittman, 241 N.C. 69, 84 S.E. 2d 297, in opinion by Higgins, J., said: “This statute does not contemplate the taking of deposition of a person disqualified to give evidence in the case.”

As in Yow, the deposition statute must be considered in connection with G.S. 8-53, which provides: “Communications between physician and patient. — No person, duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, shall be required to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending a patient in a professional character, and which…