Chlanda v. St. Louis Transit Co.

Appeal from Boone Circuit Court. — Boto. A. B. Waller, Judge. (1) The trial court was right in excluding an answer by. Dr. Hixon (an attending physician) to the question as to plaintiff’s condition when he was first called to treat her. What comes within a physician’s observation of his patient’s “condition,” when called to treat her, is within the professional secrecy imposed by the statute on that subject, which declares “incompetent to testify,” a “physician or surgeon, concerning any information which he may have acquired” while attending “in a professional character,” etc. R. S. 1899,…