Atlanta Transit System, Inc. v. Biggs

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Error is enumerated on the refusal of the trial court to allow in evidence certain hospital records predating the injury, offered for purposes of impeachment. Four records were offered and one admitted. Two of the others showed hospital visits on entirely unrelated ailments. The fourth referred to a visit on April 23, 1963, for a breast examination. After a question relating to this, the plaintiff was asked whether she recalled telling them back then that she "had lost about 10 pounds in 6 months, and having chills, fever and night sweats,” to which she replied that she…