Ex Parte Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York

BROWN, Justice.

The only question specifically dealt with by the Court of Appeals was that raised by the appellant’s ninth assignment of error— the sustaining of plaintiff’s objection to an excerpt from page 281 of Sir William Osier’s “The Principles and Practice of Medicine,” dealing with “Syphilis and Life Insurance” — the entire volume, as the opinion states, had been offered in evidence by the defendant and allowed by the court over the objection of the plaintiff. This, of course, as the Court of Appeals correctly holds, rendered the sustaining of the objection to the excerpt innocuous.

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