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Evidence - Admissibility Of Age In Hospital Record As Business Entry, Craig E. Davids
Evidence - Admissibility Of Age In Hospital Record As Business Entry, Craig E. Davids
Michigan Law Review
Representing his birth date as 1866, deceased purchased from defendant insurance company in 1921 a policy on his life, which provided that in the event of any misrepresentation of age the insured's beneficiary would receive only that amount which a standard policy issued at his true age would stipulate for the premiums paid. In a suit by the beneficiary to recover on the policy, defendant attempted to prove that deceased was born at least as early as 1862. Among other evidence, defendant introduced a hospital record of deceased's visit to a particular institution in 1936 where he represented his age …
Evidence - Admissibility Of Hospital Records As Business Entries, Robert C. Lovejoy
Evidence - Admissibility Of Hospital Records As Business Entries, Robert C. Lovejoy
Michigan Law Review
As a defense to a suit on an insurance policy, the defendant insurer claimed that the plaintiff was intoxicated at the time of the fatal accident. Defendant offered in evidence a portion of the case record of the hospital to which plaintiff was taken after the accident, the record stating that he was "apparently well under influence of alcohol." Although it was duly authenticated under the federal statute permitting business entries to be used as evidence, this evidence was excluded by the trial court as being an observation rather than a diagnosis. Held, reversed. There was no basis for …