Pahl v. Troy City Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Troy City Railway Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rensselaer on the 25th day of October, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury for $15,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 25tli day of October, 1901, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
Upon the trial of this action, which was brought to recover damages on account of alleged grievous spinal injuries claimed to have been received by the plaintiff by reason of the negligence of the defendant as a common carrier, the plaintiff called as a witness one of his attending physicians, of whom he asked the following ques • tions, and to which the following objections and exceptions were taken, and answers were given : “ Q. Do you know Dr. Charles L. Dana as a medical writer ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Are his writings accepted by the profession as authoritative on certain questions ?…
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