APPEAL COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 136, 1 August 1911, Page 6

APPEAL COURT.

AN INTERESTING CASE. (Per Press Association.> Wellington, August 1. In the Court of Appeal to-day the case of Luccna v. tho National Mutual Life Association of Australia is being heard. The case raises some interesting questions as to what extent communications made by a doctor to a patient or a. patient to a doctor in course of consultation are privileged from disclosure in Courts of law. The question turns on the construction of section S (3) of the Evidence Act. 1908. Tho defendant company tendered evidence, which was objected to by plaintiff, of information gained by observation during examination, and later during an operation an plaintiff. Mr Treadwell appeared for the defendant company in support of an application to admit the evidence, and Mr H. D. Bell for the plaintiff to object.