In Re Loewenthal

The petitioner, Dr. M. Loewenthal, a practicing physician in the city of Cleveland, has invoked the original jurisdiction of this court for the purpose of obtaining a writ of habeas corpus to release him from arrest on a mittimus issued for contempt of a notary public because of his refusal to answer certain questions propounded to him during the course of a hearing by way of deposition in a case now pending in the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County.

Involved is the question of privileged communications between physician and patient.

Since there is virtually no dispute as to the essential…