Macdonald v. Mayor of New York

Davis, P. J.:

The plaintiff in this case is a physician and a distinguished specialist in diseases of the brain. The district attorney of the city and county of New^ York being about to try an indictment for felony, in which the defense of insanity was interposed, employed Dr. Macdonald to make a professional examination of the party indicted, to ascertain her mental condition with a view of being a • witness upon the trial. The doctor made such examination and qualified himself to become a witness, and at the request of the district ’■ *90. attorney attended tbe court and was examined upon the…