Strafford v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 95 Wash. 450
• 164 P. 71

Syllabus

<p>Witnesses — Confidential Communications — Physicians-—Examinations. Under Rem. Code, § 1214, which provides that a physician or surgeon shall not be examined in a civil action as to information acquired in attending a patient to enable him to prescribe or act for the patient, a physician may describe the nature and extent of the examination he made while the patient was under his care, if he does not state the result of the examination; and he may also testify as to subsequent examinations made for the purpose of enabling him to testify and not as the patient’s physician or for the purpose of treatment.</p> <p>Same — Cross-Examination—Redirect—Scope. Where part of a conversation is elicited on cross-examination, redirect may go into the whole conversation.</p> <p>Appeal — Review-—-Harmless Error — Argument. Where, upon objection to the argument to the jury as improper, counsel withdraws his statement and requested the jury not to consider it, the error if any was harmless.</p> <p>Same — Harmless Error — Instructions—Cure by Verdict. Upon appeal by plaintiff from an award in his favor for personal injuries, error in instructions to the jury not affecting the amount of the recovery is without prejudice.</p>