Pritchard v. Insurance Co. of North America

MEMORANDUM OPINION

READY, Chief Judge.

This case is before the court on plaintiff’s motion to quash depositions sought by defendant of Dr. Joseph P. Rowland *106and Dr. Charles R. Arkin, medical specialists of Memphis, Tennessee, who were treating physicians of Rice H. Pritchard (Pritchard) during his last illness. Pritchard died September 21, 1971, in Baptist Memorial Hospital while under the care of the two physicians. Plaintiff, as widow and executrix of Pritchard’s estate, asserts that the knowledge gained by the treating physicians constitutes privileged communications under Mississippi Law1…