Parker v. Martin

Plaintiff-appellant seeks review of a final judgment awarding him $250 in this negligence action.

Plaintiff, Eric Parker, sued the County after sustaining injuries while a passenger on an MTA bus. At trial, two of the three physicians that treated him testified. The $145 bill of Dr. Jordan Davis, one of the testifying physicians, was initially admitted into evidence, but later withdrawn by the trial judge apparently on the ground that Davis was an “examining physician” in contrast to a “treating physician” the jury retired to deliberate and then requested Dr. Davis’ bill. The judge advised…